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New Data Shows 29 States Hit Record Export Levels In 2012
by Press Release - U.S. Department of Commerce |
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Contributed to record-setting $2.2 trillion year for U.S. exports. Nationally, jobs supported by exports increased to 9.8 million in 2012.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank today announced new state export data that shows 29 states set new records for export sales in 2012. In total, 35 states achieved merchandise export growth in 2012, and 20 of those states experienced growth of at least five percent or more.
Total merchandise exports from all 50 states helped contri...full article |
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Global Issues to Watch - March 2013
by ISA - International Strategic Analysis |
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The Challenges Facing China's New President (2013-03-20)
Xi Jinping has officially become China’s new president and as he prepares to lead to the world’s most-populous country for the next ten years, he will find that he faces a myriad of challenges that threaten China’s rise to superpower status. As the head of a government focused on maintaining its grip on power, it will be the internal challenges facing President Xi that will garner the most of his attention. However, as China’s glob...full article |
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Egypt: Challenge or opportunity
by Economist Intelligence Unit |
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A big, youthful population should promise growth, but political instability holds the Nile nation back
Where there are political upheaval, risk and uncertainty, there are opportunities worth grasping. This may well be the thinking that Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi will be clinging to as he beats a trail east and west to drum up much needed foreign direct investment (FDI). Since 2008/9, FDI in Egypt has slumped from $8.1bn to $2.1bn in 2011/12 and the country’s near-term macroeconom...full article |
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The State of the World: Explaining U.S. Strategy
by George Friedman, Stratfor |
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| The fall of the Soviet Union ended the European epoch, the period in which European power dominated the world. It left the United States as the only global power, something for which it was culturally and institutionally unprepared. Since the end of World War II, the United States had defined its foreign policy in terms of its confrontation with the Soviet Union. Virtually everything it did around the world in some fashion related to this confrontation. The fall of the Soviet Union simultaneousl...full article |
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