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Consumer Spending Outlook and Value Creation in the New Global Economy
In the wake of the financial crisis that began in 2008, it is clear that none of the key drivers of private household consumption—the true growth engine in the global economy—is working properly.


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Payments Perspectives Blog
The Edge of…Something
The news on Tuesday, February 7 that U.S. consumer borrowing on credit cards rose pretty sharply in December (after a very steep rise in November) elicited some head-scratching on the part of reporters and others who were asked to come up with an instant analysis of the data. On the one hand, spending on credit cards
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The Promise and Perils of Cross-Border E-Commerce
U.S. online sales growth is projected to be lower than the growth in developing markets, according to growth rate forecasts from Forrester Research. Countries such as India, China, Brazil, and Mexico are all around 20 percent or higher compared with 10 percent in the United States. Of course, 10 percent growth is pretty good—but 20
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Colombia: The Next Brazil?
The new up-and-coming emerging economies are the CIVETS: Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa, according to Robert Ward, global forecasting director for the Economist Intelligence Unit. According to Mr. Ward, they are ready to become the next BRICs. Unless you have been living under a brick yourself for the last 10 years, you’ve
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Saving the Sale
I was recently shopping at an EMS store for a fleece vest for my wife. I found the one I wanted, in the color I wanted, but they didn’t have her size. “Do you have this in a small?” I asked a clerk. “Let me check,” and off he went to the back room. A
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Young Guns
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, almost half of Millennials—defined by the Pew Research Center as Americans 28 years old and younger—were unemployed in 2010. The question is, what are they going to do about it? Late last year I attended a company meeting highlighting Dell’s America’s Favorite Small Business campaign, run in partnership
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