It’s that time of year again. Fall foliage, Halloween trick-or-treating, and the next G20 Summit. As the chair and host, Australia, like others before it, want their Summit to be relevant and meaningful.
On September 5-6, Russian President Vladimir Putin will sit down with other G20 leaders in St. Petersburg.
Big data is essentially the collection, collation, and assumed use of information about almost anything you can imagine. It’s a central feature for financial institutions, cell phone companies, retail businesses, and defense and intelligence agencies.
Mexico’s new President Enrique Peña Nieto has started his six-year presidency with a bang. Not only has he struck a ‘grand bargain’ with the two opposition parties, but only months after inauguration the most powerful and most corrupt woman in Mexico, former head of the National Education Workers Union, Elba Esther Gordillo was arrested.
It’s a great time for the U.S. to address immigration. Not only because it makes good political theater against a backdrop of changing electoral demographics, but because Mexicans are staying home.
If your company has been sitting on the sidelines waiting for some semblance of certainty to return to the U.S. economy it could be a long wait. Instead of yet another ‘wait and see’ year, now might be the time to grasp new opportunities and expand into overseas markets.
As Greek debt approaches 200 percent of GDP, unemployment and social unrest continue to rise and the possibility of another round of defaults hangs in the balance, it becomes more and more apparent that underneath the tax evasion, corruption and uncompetitive business climate lies a culture that is perpetuating the economic crisis.
In response to a question regarding whether anyone has studied the cumulative effect of the financial reforms and the impact of these reforms on credit availability and economic recovery– U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated, “I can’t pretend that anybody really has. It’s just too complicated.”
One characteristic the best exporters have in common is a commitment to meeting all the agreed upon expectations of the buyer. While this may sound obvious, the devil is in the details.
While the panic of 2008 has subsided, it has left behind disheartened workers, anxious consumers as well as companies stuck in a murky bog of uncertain regulation. That doesn’t mean there are not bright spots deserving of some attention.