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I am a financial journalist living in Toronto, Canada, and the founder of Future Economics, a website dedicated to economic and geopolitical forecasting.

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Ontario: The Borderland Economy
Compared to other provinces, Ontario has unique ties to the growing economy of the US - more unique than most people realize. Investors in Ontario should not underemphasize these unique ties when thinking about Ontario's economic resilience
Morocco The Outlier
Since 2011, Morocco has become the only state in the Middle East/North African region that is not or does not directly border a failed or semi-failed state. We'll discuss 5 factors that could contribute to its economic success in the decade ahead.
Complacency Over Coal's Collapse: Factors To Consider
American coal companies' stock prices have crashed in recent years, in response to the triple-whammy punch that is the US fracking boom, the environmentalist movement, and the slowdown in the Chinese industrial economy. But they could bounce back.
Examining China's M&A Boom
The value of China’s outbound M&A as a share of global cross-border M&A should perhaps be lower than China’s share of global GDP, then. The M&A boom could be capital flight after all.
Labor Strikes In China
GDP-adjusted maps of labor strikes in China involving more than 1000 participants display a number of regional patterns within the country.
Expect The Unexpected: 10 Reasons North Korea Could Soon Change Course
Reunification with the South or not, it still makes sense to guess that North Korea under Kim Jong Un will end up being very different from that of his father.
Eurozone Economy Could Be Chilled To The Core
The Eurozone's economic slowdown may be creeping inward, from the periphery of the region into central economies like Germany, Belgium, northern Italy, and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, the fate of Eurozone expansion may rest with the Czech Republic.
Senior Discounts? Oil Prices And Old Rulers
Given the aging of the leadership of oil-producing countries, deaths could lead to political upheaval that causes their countries' oil and gas production to fall.
Germany At A Crossroads
Germany's economy, which accounts for an estimated 21 percent of the European Union's GDP, is now facing five big challenges.
The Geopolitics Of Cheap Energy
An in-depth look at ways in which the world might be impacted if energy and oil prices continue to fall.
Finally Passing Gas: 10 Winners And Losers Of The Panama Canal Expansion
When finished, the Panama Canal Expansion will have two new features: the ability to serve ships that can carry up to three times as many containers as it can currently handle, and the ability to serve LNG carriers, which it now can't handle.
Europe And Arabia: A Geopolitical Perspective
As different as the Quran is from the New Testament, or the Constitution of France is from the Constitution of Saudi Arabia (which is, in fact, the Quran), these may be less important than the geographic differences that separate Europe from Arabia.
The Other Greek Economy
Will the Greek economy soon grab the global spotlight once more, or are new media and economic patterns are emerging instead? This article is not just about Greece, but rather also the world's only other Greek-speaking state, Cyprus.
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