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Digital distribution changing industries? So very 1999. Think again. The world of physical sales is a world of scarcity. Limited shelf space, limited distribution channels, limited display area; limits...
View ArticleThe World As Optimum Currency Area?
I was a little surprised to read in the Christmas edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (not yet online, subscription wall, in German) that Robert Mundell seems to have changed his...
View ArticleNo Answers Only Questions
One person who could rightly claim to know more about global ageing and its possible consequences than anyone else in the business is the German Director of the Manheim Research Institute for the...
View ArticleThe Emerging Global Labour Market
Opening my McKinseyQuarterly Newsletter today, I find an interesting link to the McKinsey Global Institute’s latest contribution (free, but registration required) to the question whether Globalization...
View ArticleKatrina and the Waves
As Edward suggests below, the macroeconomic effects of Katrina are just now becoming known, much less felt or sorted out. One item that will be much more widely reported is that in addition to all of...
View ArticleOil Demand Expected To Stay High
The International Energy Agency have just published their forecast for oil demand next year, and its more of the same, with the emphasis on more. Global oil consumption is expected to increase by 1.75m...
View ArticleMore Growth In The Eurozone
I think I’d better rephrase that: more overall growth, but a very mixed bag. In deriving aggregate numbers for the zone, four big economies really matter: Spain, France, Germany and Italy. Now each of...
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Eurozone Economy: When Paradigms Collide
When scientific paradigms collide everyone should duck, at least that is the best advice I can offer at the present moment. The provisional German retail sales for January are now in, and they don’t...
View ArticleThe Economics of the German VAT Hike
I am very happy to be back here at AFOE, if not only, for a brief one-stop guest post about the economics of the German VAT hike and more specifically how market commentators and analists might just be...
View ArticleThe Long Tail by Chris Anderson
What percentage of the top 10,000 titles in any online media store (Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, or any other) will rent or sell at least once a quarter? That’s the question posed by Robbie Vann-Adibe, the...
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