Monthly Archives: December 2014

Will Globalization Be Obama’s Greatest Foreign Policy Legacy?

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Kati Suominen

This article appeared in Zocalo on 29 December 2014: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/12/29/will-globalization-be-obamas-greatest-foreign-policy-legacy/ideas/nexus A President Who Came Into Office a Free Trade Skeptic Is Now on the Brink of Brokering Two Big Deals Battered by crises and maligned by critics, globalization is regaining momentum. … Continue reading →

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How to Boost U.S. Small Business Lending? Look to the UK

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Kati Suominen

The following piece by me ran today in Ideas Lab: http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/post/104665004574/boosting-small-business-lending-look-to-the-u-k After a recent public consultation with the business community and financial services industry, the U.K. government has decided to enact a law that requires large lenders to share information with … Continue reading →

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How Digital Protectionism Threatens to Derail 21st Century Businesses

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Kati Suominen

The below piece appeared in Marsh & MacLennan’s BRINK on 3 December 2014: http://www.brinknews.com/how-digital-protectionism-threatens-to-derail-21st-century-businesses/ A decade ago, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat popularized globalization as a process where Apple, Dell, IBM, and other giant corporations offshored manufacturing to low-cost … Continue reading →

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