Word: exportability
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...when regional economies and governments were convulsed by devastating recession. That prospect still seems remote. Growth in Asia has remained relatively robust in 2008 and financial sectors sound. But Asian stock markets, most of which have plummeted by 30% or more this year, are signaling harder times ahead. Falling export growth and tighter credit are already beginning to pinch. Merrill Lynch expects GDP growth in Asia (excluding Japan) of 7.7% this year, the slowest pace since 2003. Next year could be worse if the U.S. enters a full-blown recession. "There are few signs as yet of the damaging effect...
...unwinding for Asia, for example. Even if the U.S. government can pass a plan to pump money into the financial system by buying bad mortgages - thus freeing up banks to lend money elsewhere - it won't "address the decimation of the wealth effect of the U.S. consumer," which many export-led Asian economies rely on, says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at Newedge Group, a financial services firm based in Hong Kong...
...MySpace is basically a walled garden. You can share your playlists with other MySpace users - and it's definitely fun to check out what new songs your friends are grooving to - but you can't listen to those playlists on other sites. Imeem, on the other hand, lets people export and post their playlists on blogs, Facebook, and even MySpace, using an embeddable widget. That means your friends can listen to your Imeem songs without ever logging onto Imeem (or even knowing that it exists). But MySpace president Chris DeWolfe thinks playlists make more sense as an extension...
Japan and Germany make cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies the world with socks and toys and flat-screen TVs. What does the United States produce? Lots of stuff, but in recent years this country's No. 1 export--by far--has been debt...
...fearing disaster if everybody retrenches at the same time--has stepped into the breach. Again, that makes sense in a crisis. But once the panic has passed, the U.S. will simply be steering toward another, even bigger, crisis unless it finds something to replace debt as its No. 1 export...