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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: dvdw© who wrote (286)5/1/2017 1:53:58 AM
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The globalization pendulum swung too much to one side. The global elites have profiting handsomely and do not want profits to revert to the medium.

They are not reinvesting. ploughing back of profits into businesses.

This here is an example that we can extend to the global economy as a whole.

Denis O'Brien Digicel
irishtimes.com

He borrowed money. Build his networks. Took the profits. Instead of re-investing and modernize the operations, he pocketed the profits. Expected the business to keep growing and the vendors to be more than willing to finance the modernization. The vendors new generation of equipment was always become cheaper and the companies did not have to retain capital to modernize as next generation were cheaper than the previous ones.

Then the crisis hit.
When he tried to IPO his company, it failed.
irishtimes.com

Now he is saddled with huge debts while the high dollar ravaged the operations in the countries he does business thus undermining the capacity of him paying the debts.

You look at tech giants and they have 1.3 trillion dollars stashed overseas, while they borrow to invest.

Perhaps we have to remove the CFOs from the investments decisions.
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