The sheer size of the numbers is simply mind-boggling: 12 American companies have a market value of $30 trillion? Note that the U.S. GDP is about $30.8 trillion in nominal terms for 2025, according to IMF forecasts. There are only so many trillions of dollars that can disappear from investors’ portfolios before a recession is …
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China is the leading shadow lender to the Developed Economies
A report released Tuesday, November 18, 2025, by the AidData research arm of the University of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, comes to the startling conclusion that the United States is the largest recipient of loans from China. The report, titled “Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing’s Global Lending Rules“, found that 1,193 …
Strategic Movements for the Future of Retail Trade
Measures of social distancing impose this new reality of life, which entails changes in the planning and daily life of citizens. These measures of social distancing will continue to exist, despite the forced closure of the market, and impose this new reality of life, in which traders and citizens will have to adapt. For their …