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2011: My Space OdysseyMOSCOW – Most people who know of me think of me as an information-technology expert, someone who probably lives in California and invests in edgy Internet start-ups.
“Europe invests more than the US overall relative to GDP, but not in relation to the Internet and ICT.”
Though a small group of collectors invests speculatively in antique or specialty cars, the idea of speculating in automobiles just is not in the public consciousness.
Moreover, the more a country invests in equipment, the more it learns about the latest technology – and it learns about it in a very effective, “hands-on” way.
Secondly, if a country invests more than it saves, it will need to borrow, and the counterpart to that borrowing is a trade deficit.
Ironically, despite its human-rights rhetoric, the EU has long favored China over India: for every euro that the EU invests in India, it invests €20 in China.
There was a time when privatization – allowing individuals to set up individual savings accounts – seemed better than Social Security, which invests in lower-yielding Treasury bills.
That is why the government of, say, the United States invests so much in medical research: the National Institutes of Health alone has an annual budget of $32 billion with which to fund infrastructure and research projects that employ a subset of the country’s greatest scientific talent.
But, because the Kremlin does not trust its own stocks and bonds, the Stabilization Fund invests in Western securities.
(When American economists advise China to boost consumption and cut saving, they are merely peddling the bad habits of American culture, which saves and invests far too little for America’s future.)
India can continue to thrive if it invests in physical and human capital and pursues prudent fiscal and monetary policies.
Greater regulation would be a mistake, the report argues, because the global economy’s best defense against systemic risk is the exercise of common sense and “due diligence” by each and every person who invests or interacts with hedge funds.
Imagine a bank that invests in illiquid assets but allows depositors to redeem their cash overnight: if a run on these funds occurs, the need to sell the illiquid assets can push their price very low very fast, in what is effectively a fire sale.
Meanwhile, the EIB invests only 5% of its energy portfolio in energy-efficiency programs.
A shaping power builds relationships and invests in institutions that allow it to work well with others and to create and mobilize “coalitions and networks of like-minded states.”
China dominates global investment because it saves and invests nearly half of its $10.5 trillion economy.
Securing the Digital RevolutionBRUSSELS – Pity the person who invests heavily in canals right before the railways start operating.
So anyone who invests in coal now does so at his or her peril.
Because the candidate drugs in this R&D “valley of death” are riskier than anything in which Royalty Pharma invests, an even larger portfolio of compounds would be needed to yield levels of risk and rates of return that are acceptable to typical investors.
For example, a French firm that invests in Ireland pays the 12.5% Irish corporate tax but is then free to repatriate the after-tax profits with a tax of less than 5%.
Automation, Productivity, and GrowthBERLIN – It seems obvious that if a business invests in automation, its workforce – though possibly reduced – will be more productive.
Only when a country invests less in fixed assets than the amount that it saves will the “surplus savings” show up in the trade balance.
It runs a trade deficit only when it invests a lot while simultaneously not limiting consumption.
Sweden, for example, invests more than any other European country in this area – well above the EU target of 3% of GDP.
Imagine, for example, that Germany borrows at a 1% fixed real interest rate with a ten-year maturity and invests the proceeds in repairing domestic transport infrastructure.
Between 1995 and 2002, it doubled the percentage of its rapidly growing GDP that it invests in R&D, with biotechnology and other high-tech fields enjoying the highest priority.
For example, DESERTEC invests in renewable-energy projects, such as solar-power stations, in Northern Africa and the Middle East, in order to supply electricity to Europe via HVDC lines.
If a country saves less than it invests, it must borrow the difference from abroad, and foreign borrowing and trade deficits are two sides of the same coin.
The US has saved less than it invests for two decades, while Japan has done the reverse.
As Barbara Novick, a vice chair of BlackRock, noted on a panel on corporate governance and ethics at this year’s Davos gathering, her firm looks carefully at whether the boards of companies in which BlackRock invests include people who are engaged and asking hard questions consistently throughout the year.
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