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In this wiki, you will find a collection of the students notes on a variety of global issues, with a focus on international finance, international relations, politics and business.   Clearly not all of the content is our own, nor do we endorse students opinions posted on our pages.   There have been many contributors to this site, and our role is just to moderate the content and make sure it fits the "GloboTrends" theme.    We try to link properly and send readers to other interesting news sites.   If you see any inappropriate material, please let us know.

What are "GloboTrends?"

“GloboTrends” are fundamental underlying trends, which means that they are important, but might not be obvious.   Many trends are interconnected, and have global implications.   Not paying attention to the development of global trends in can come back to haunt any business person, and so… we have dedicated ourselves to summarizing these events in simple language, and we are trying to show how these events might be important to different regions, and to different industries. 

Trend Watching:

• Macro Trends: underlying trends that are shaping our world today
• Places: Countries and Cities and Regions

more: 

• economic indicators 
• predicting the future
• predicting trends in foreign exchange rates
• Packenham model to predict policy changes
• Futures market
• forward contracts 
• bad predictions : a collection of wrong forecasts, and bad predictions from famous people on well-known topics
• Trends 2010 and Predictions-for-2009: Our predictions for 2009 (made in December 2008) - take a look and see how we did
• Mega Trends
• Tech trends
• Finance & startup capital trends
• trends
• Travel Trends 
• Emerging market trends
• Consumer Trends
• Geographical Specific trends

Resource Pages:

1. Country Guides
• Country guides
• international country risk guides
• foreign currency debt rating
2. International Finance
• global imbalances (finance)
3. Currency Issues
• Currency & foreign exchange trading
• hedging
• speculating
• Foreign exchange Options
• gold standard
• fixed exchange rate
4. international economics
• macro economics
• economic forecasting
• trade barrier
• global economic cycle
• monetary policy
• interest rate parity
• fiscal policy
• inflation
• money supply
5. Trade
• international trade
• barriers to entry
• common agricultural policy
• Comparative Advantage
6. international development
• Development issues
• entrepreneurship and economic development
• economic development and geography
• immigration
7. Global Economic Crisis
• credit crisis of 2007-09
8. Globalization issues
• Washington consensus
• Anti-Globalization Movement
9. Environment
• Cap and trade systems
• global warming
10. Social Entrepreneurship
• Investing in socially good projects
• Sustainable development
• funding for the social entrepreneur
• social entrepreneur
• peer-to-peer lending
• Microfinance