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...China for growth, prosperity and investment. So the question most discussed at Davos this year soon became: Which of the two is ahead now, and which is likely to win in the longer term? The scorecard: CHINA, reckons Jim O'Neill, the head of global economic research for Goldman Sachs. The Chinese economy is already substantially bigger than India's, and won't lose ground as both grow into world economic titans. According to his projections, China's economy will be easily the world's biggest by 2050, far ahead of the U.S., with India in third place at about...
...higher oil prices. Overall, the Japanese economy grew by an estimated 2.6% in 2005, and despite a huge budget deficit and heavy debt most forecasters expect it to grow by at least 2.2% this year. Despite stock-market jitters caused by a scandal this month at Internet company Livedoor, Goldman Sachs even estimates Japan's economy could grow slightly more strongly than last year. And in Germany, business confidence is at its highest point since May 2000, according to a survey released last week, auguring well for the new coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In a well-received...
...risks in mature economies aren't so lethal. Instead there is potential treachery of the bottom line. Bank analysts are worried that HSBC has become overly dependent on slow-moving, mature markets, such as in Europe and the U.S.--which could slow growth. Goldman Sachs estimates HSBC's profit growth will sink to a more-than-respectable 9.8% a year from 2005 to 2007, after expanding an average of 19% a year from...
...value to our lives-will get the big numbers, $1 million and up. Way up. Overall, the average bonus will total a record $125,500, up 6% from last year. For overseeing a firm that collects enough in fees and commissions to afford such munificence, CEO Henry Paulsen at Goldman Sachs got $38 million. John Mack at Morgan Stanley got $23 million. Actually, the figure for Mack is only $11.5 million. I annualized it; he was there just half a year...
According to Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, when prosecuting oligarchs, Putin went “too far yet not far enough.” He went after the oligarchs that did not support him, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, yet suspiciously overlooked friendly others such as Roman Abramovich. Furthermore, the increasingly complacent Parliament was cajoled into passing strict controls on civil liberties. In a move almost unnoticed by Western media, Andrei Illarionov, a top economic adviser to Putin, resigned last week, loudly proclaiming Russia to be “no longer...