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BRICs, storytelling, and dispersion mechanisms
Dreaming BRICs was a Goldman Sachs paper released on 1 October 2003, which popularized the term BRIC [Brazil, Russia, India, China] with a macroeconomic investment thesis. The authors speculated a spectacular growth of the emerging block. Revisiting the feature one can see that the last 19 years have not worked out well for the forecast.…
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Free Lunch
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The BRIC Model From A Japanese Perspective.
Starting with the fundamental idea of an “emerging market economy”, it’s role, utility and dynamics in the current global set up as a balancing economic block, the paper analysis Goldman Sach’s emerging BRIC’s countries model in context of the pre and post 2008 financial crisis. The paper looks at micro and macroeconomic valuations, currency and…
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Blind Men And The Elephant
At a farewell party last night, we found that five of us had the same birthday, which was quite a coincidence as the gathering was small. There, a friend from Lebanon who is a senior techie at a Fortune 500 infrastructure company asked me to explain how such recurring coincidences take place often. There was…