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Commodity Spotlight | The Fundamental Importance of Copper for World Economic Growth
Since the advent of hybrid and battery electric vehicles, the amount of copper wiring used to power an automobile has increased.
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The Fate of Crypto as a Form of Legal Tender | A Brief Look at Latin America
Emerging markets are drawn to cryptocurrencies as they are able to facilitate cross-border transactions with few to no fees.
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Why do businesses and governments even exist?
What can we fairly expect to give and receive given the current circumstances?
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What is Surplus? The Commencement of Trade
With trade, we can form meaningful associations with others who have surplus in places where we have deficits.
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The Magic of Kampong Glam | A Humble Homesick Singaporean Pays Homage
There is a magic to Kampong Glam that I cannot put into words. It is perhaps a magic that only I feel and only I know.
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The Roads of International Trade | The Legal Construct that Created the Commercial World
Capitalism, which had once been the domain of a small group of land-owning individuals and families, now held within it the potential for the common man to flourish within the world of commerce.
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The Chettiars | Bankers and Financiers of the Old World
For the Chettiars, the story begins with trading in precious stones.
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The Flawed Mirror of International Trade | How Broken Biases Misguide Decision-Making
Is prejudice, with all its perils, going to form the basis of our economic policies?
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The Twins of Innovation and Tradition | A Story of Samsung
To stick to the status quo is to be on a ship that is destined to sink either slowly or suddenly–but surely.
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The Twin Sisters of Trajectory | The Early Journeys of Singapore and Hong Kong
One of the unique features of Hong Kong’s industrial development is that almost all of its enterprises have started with the entrepreneur’s own capital.
Twinn Swan 