1. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Trends in Global Business

2. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015  Globalization  Internationalization of U.S. Markets and Businesses PewResearch Opinion Poll  Decreasing Economic Dominance of the U.S.? Trends in Global Business

3. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Forces Driving Global Integration: Regional Trade Agreements More Countries Embracing a Free Market Economy Political Changes towards Democracy Homogenous Consumer Telecommunication Technology Global Competition Trends in Global Business

4. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Forces Restraining Global Integration: Less Countries Embracing a Free Market Economy Political Changes away from Democracy Ethnocentric Attitude Terrorism Fear and Populism Economic Turmoil Trends in Global Business

5. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015  Growth of Prospering Regional Trade Areas EUEU, NAFTANAFTA  Disappointment of Regional Trade Areas ASEAN, MERCOSUR  Growth of Multilateral Trade Agreements Trans-Pacific-Partnership Pacific Deal Rewrites Rules on Trade in Autos, Patented Drugs  Move toward free market system by countries in Asia and Eastern Europe  Increasing Skepticism about free markets Capitalism’s Waning Popularity  New Tendencies of Protectionism Trends in Global Business

6. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015  Decreasing Power of WTOWTO  Populism in Latin America  Large Emerging Markets such as China, Russia. India, and Brazil  China’s Leadership and Capitalism What Do Chinese and Japanese Think about Each Other? Trends in Global Business

7. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Trends in Global Business  Russia’s Oil Wealth, Dutch Disease, and Crumbling Democracy  India’s two worlds  Arab Spring, Civil War, and Refugee Crisis How the Arab Spring and Civil Wars Led to Europe’s Refugee Crisis The roots of this refugee crisis go back even further than the Arab spring  Ideological Divide shifts from Economy to Religion

8. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Economic and Political Systems Old World Western Perspective FreeRepressed - Capitalism- Communism -Private Property- State owned -Market Responsible- Government Responsible For Allocation of Resources

9. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 FreeRepressed - Democracy- Theocracy -Private Property- Mixed -Market Responsible- Market, Government and For Allocation of Religious Leaders Responsible Resources For Allocation of Resources Economic and Political Systems New World Western Perspective

10. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015  Sustainability Economic—Social Ethical business practices Fair trade Worker’s rights Environmental— Economic Energy efficiency Less pollution Environmental-Social Environmental justice Stewards of the environment Trends in Global Business “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” Adapted from UNLV Urban Sustainability Initiative Presentation https://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/24/GenEdPresentation-12-4-08.pdf

11. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Trends in Global Business  Sustainability: Fact or Fiction?  Fair Trade What is Fair Trade?  A Tesla for the U.S. What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source?  A Diesel for Europe No Cheating Needed. Europe's Lax Laws Make Diesel Tests a Snap Critical evaluation of the European diesel car boom

12. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Trends in Global Business  Increasing Divide Between Rich and Poor Gini Index: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2172rank.html Are the Top 1% getting richer? Do the Math: The Rich Really Are Different

13. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 r ˃ g( r = rate of return on capital and g = rate of growth of economy) „When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history until the nineteenth century and as is likely to be the case again in the twenty-first century), then it logically follows that inherited wealth growth faster than output and income“ Piketty, Thomas (2014), Capital in the twentyfirst Century, p. 26, Cambridge: the Bellnap Press of Harvard University. The Importance of Inheritance (France)

14. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015  Aging Population in most Developed Countries and China  Aching Health Care and Retirement Systems Aching Health Care System: U.S. Perspective Why is the US health spending so high?  Evolving Global Middle Income Households  E-Commerce  Increasing ideological divide between Islamic and Western countries Trends in Global Business

15. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015  Offshore Outsourcing of highly skilled labor  Capital Movements ($ 400billion/day) exceed Trade ($15 billion/day)  Deflationary Forces Driven by New Market Economies  Low Real Interest Rates due to Global Saving Glut  Large Trade Imbalances Trends in Global Business

16. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Trends in Global Business  Increasing Tensions in the EU Diverging Competitiveness of Countries (North-South divide) Unsustainable Debt in Southern Countries Investors loose confidence, flight of capital, Questionable Rescue Funds and Eroding Trust in Euro

17. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Trends in Global Business Global Financial Crisis and Recession Deleveraging Quantitative Easing Gouvernement Bailouts Deflation or Inflation? Dollar Crisis or Euro Crisis? Psychological and Political Consequences: - End of Deregulation? - Is the Paradigm of Free Markets Loosing its Dominance? - End of Globalization? End of Paper Money? Default of Governments?

18. Alexander Consulting Enterprise 12/11/2015 Perspective of the National Intelligence Council: Global Trends 2030 http://www.dni.gov/index.php/about/organization/national- intelligence-council-global-trends Trends in Global Business