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The Great Global Shift: New World, New Rules
Published in Investments & Wealth Monitor, March/April 2012

The very real economic shocks that have rumbled through the United States and the rest of the developed world during the past four years may have at last begun to unsettle our sense of equilibrium. The history of modern commerce has taught us all about cycles. Historically, recessions lead to the inevitable reflation. Crashes contain the seeds of comebacks. Markets mend, gross domestic products rise again, and job creation does become real rather than just a piece of political rhetoric. And yet, as much as we’d like to believe otherwise, there’s no denying that this time it’s different. Read the article.