Published in Oct 2017 Based on data published by International Monetary Fund (IMF), it appears that we have successfully recovered from the Great Recession of 2007. Global Growth has picked up around the world in what is being termed as “synchronized global growth” across the globe. Hence, ten years after the Great Recession started, global economic growth is accelerating and stock markets around the world are hitting record highs. The IMF stated that “The outlook is strengthening, with a notable pickup in investment, trade, and industrial production, together with rising confidence.” However, this has been tempered with the caveat
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Confrontation with North Korea – Deja Vu?
Published Aug 12, 2017: This week we had another, by all accounts, successful ICBM Test by North Korea aka DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea), which makes it two in a row. This coupled with separate successful Nuclear Tests in earlier years, has “upped the ante” in in the Korean Peninsula and now has the potential to cross some dangerous “red lines”. It can now be surmised that North Korea is probably working on “miniaturizing” the nuclear warheads to mount them on the cone of the ICBM to perform “integrated tests” of the entire ICBM system in coming months. If / when DPRK