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...countries, thanks in part to top scores in venture-capital availability (plentiful), domestic-market size (huge) and cost of firing workers (low). The index focuses on productivity, not its collateral effects. Next are Switzerland, Denmark (see page 68 for a look at why), Sweden, Germany, Finland, Singapore, Japan, the U.K. and the Netherlands--some fairly usual suspects. Further down are some more surprising comparisons (see list at left), such as South Korea at No. 11, up from 23rd place last year...
...China, Japan and others welcome the chance to scale back their U.S. holdings, but even the hint of a sale could send the dollar tumbling - as happened earlier this month when a Chinese official suggested China might shift some of its currency reserves to offset the "weak" dollar. The notion that the days of the dollar's dominance are numbered is, in fact, increasingly popular. In September, Alan Greenspan, former chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said it's "absolutely conceivable that the euro will replace the dollar as [the] reserve currency, or will be traded as an equally important...
...caution" had taken root among consumers and businesses alike. Today world trade is up; oil prices didn't spike, as was feared; mergers and acquisitions are back in fashion; and U.S. consumers, boosted by President Bush's tax cut, are buying the whole world out of the doldrums. Even Japan's economy, mired in recession for much of the past decade, is growing at a healthy pace again. "There's a remarkable degree of consensus" among forecasters for U.S. growth between 3.5% and 4% this year, Tyson said. If they're right, that could be the fastest growth in four...
Fang was bemused by such talk. A Stanford man who joined the board for the first time this year, he said there is no reason to think that China's economy will soon boil over simply because it's growing at about 8% to 9% a year. Japan, he pointed out, averaged a growth rate of about 10% for 25 years during its big developmental leap starting in the 1950s. China's inflation is relatively low, and a huge surplus of workers in China keeps the labor market humming--and cheap. The starting salary of an average Chinese college graduate...
...France and Germany, need to continue reforming their economies to boost productivity, reduce the relatively high cost of labor and find better investment uses for a huge pool of savings that is sitting in bank accounts that yield very low returns. France's savings rate is higher even than Japan's. "The strength of the euro highlights European structural problems; it doesn't cause them," Blanque said...