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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

by Ruchir Sharma · 5 Jun 2016 · 566pp · 163,322 words

round of excitement in the early 2000s, focused on the rise of the BRICs, or BRICS (some included South Africa in the group), and the commodity super cycle. As the hype was peaking around 2010, the historical pattern for commodity prices—which tend to boom for a decade, then fall for two decades

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The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money

by Steven Drobny · 18 Mar 2010 · 537pp · 144,318 words

high tech offices, where currently he presides over one of the largest commodity hedge funds in the world. He is a firm believer in the commodity super cycle, and spends a great deal of time thinking about the second-order effects on other markets and products. He says that pension funds and other

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Figure 8.1). Back then, the Asia crisis and the collapse of emerging markets caused a massive sell-off in commodities. It looked like the commodity super cycle that people even back then had been talking about for so long was off the table. It looked as if it was going to take

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are in a general strong upward trend in commodity prices, interim volatility can be huge, as we saw in the second half of 2008. Commodity Super Cycle The Commodity Super Cycle is an economic theory based on demographic trends and the resultant effect on demand for basic commodities. According to the theory, it is generally believed

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higher prices. Over the past decade, Jim Rogers (Inside the House of Money, Chapter 11) has become one of the best-known advocates of the “Commodity Super Cycle” theory. According to Rogers, the twentieth century has seen three secular bull markets in commodities (1906-1923, 1933-1955, 1968-1982). Each of those secular

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17 years. Rogers believes that we are currently in the middle of another secular bull market in commodities, which began in 1999. When did the commodity super cycle start? From a macro perspective, the underlying effects started showing up as far back as the 1980s, but because there was so much spare capacity

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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words

formed in precious metals (platinum, gold and silver) which emerging countries might have coveted but didn’t need for practical use. Wall Street hailed a ‘commodity super-cycle’ and urged investors to get exposure to this hot alternative asset. It would not have surprised Adam Smith to discover that real estate markets around

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capital flows into the emerging world and caused ‘overheating’ of the non-climate variety. China’s voracious demand for raw materials, in particular, stoked the ‘commodity super-cycle’.19 Easy money also stoked speculation in commodities, touted on Wall Street as a hot ‘alternative asset class’. McKinnon posed a tantalizing counterfactual: ‘If the

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, Richard, 58, 60–61, 60* capital flows, global: in 1920s, 82, 91, 261; Bretton Woods capital controls, 291; capital controls return after 2008, 262, 291; ‘commodity super-cycle (from 2010), 173–4, 255–6, 257; cross-border lending in Eurozone, 144–5; and Dollar Standard, 251–2, 253, 261, 262–3; foreign lending

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China: authoritarian relapse in recent years, 288–9; back-alley banking, 281–3; capital controls in, 262, 266, 285; capital flight from, 285–6; and ‘commodity super-cycle (from 2010), 173–4, 255–6; corporate zombies in, 277, 281, 285, 289; corruption in, 270, 274, 275, 287–8, 287*; currency devaluation (2015), 227

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey · 20 Jul 2015 · 417pp · 109,367 words

in prices a sign that the limits to growth were now upon us? Certainly many ideological environmentalists have interpreted the price spikes that way. Peak Commodity Super-Cycle? “The world is at, nearing, or past the points of peak production of a number of critical nonrenewable resources—including oil, natural gas, and coal

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barrel. The International Energy Agency projects that the price of oil will be around $128 per barrel (2012 dollars) in 2035. In their analysis of commodity super-cycles, Erten and Ocampo report: “In contrast to these trends in non-oil commodity prices, real oil prices have experienced a long-term upward trend, which

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the run-up to 2020. Despite reassuring petroleum reserve estimates and the downward pressure on prices that increased production and the waning of the current commodity super-cycle generates, a peak oil crisis might still happen. How? Through political mismanagement. Political Peak Oil “The real problems concerning future oil production are above the

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costs and benefits. See climate change costs and benefits economic freedom economic growth. See also income increase benefits overview climate adaptation and climate mitigation and commodity super-cycles and consumption decline and elitist resistance to fertility rate decline and free-market capitalism intergenerational equity and modern resource efficiency in pollution correlation to societal

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climate change negotiations with farmer suicide in fertility rate and life expectancy in Green Revolution in oil consumption patterns for Orissa cyclone Industrial Revolution industrialization commodity super-cycles and fertility rate decline and innovation trial and error in pollution correlation to Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) Inhofe, James innovation cognitive biases against

A Wealth of Common Sense: Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan

by Ben Carlson · 14 May 2015 · 232pp · 70,835 words

way into a financial advisor's asset allocation model? Exhibit supremely strong performance over the most recent period. Case in point is the mid-2000s commodities super-cycle that caused many investors to consider an allocation to commodities. Most diversified baskets of commodities more than doubled in value in the 2001 to 2007

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

by Richard Baldwin · 14 Nov 2016 · 606pp · 87,358 words

know-how. It is exactly these new knowledge flows that make the New Globalization so different from the Old Globalization. Curiously Concentrated Effects and the Commodity Super-Cycle Importantly, G7 firms own this know-how, so the new North-to-South knowledge movements should not be thought of as some enormous “Kumbaya moment

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the developing nations that are rapidly industrializing, so their rapid income growth created a booming demand for raw materials. Booming demand, in turn, created the “commodity super-cycle,” which subsequently sparked growth takeoffs in many commodity-exporting nations that were untouched by the emergence of global value chains. Globalization’s Next Big Thing

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to industrialize at a dizzying pace—resulting in a massive shift of industry from the North to the South. This Southern industrialization—together with the commodity super-cycle it launched—propelled emerging market income growth rates to unprecedented levels. The result was the “shocking share shift” shown in Figure 1. In a nutshell

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in the upper-middle-income nations. These include many of the rapidly industrializing nations that benefitted directly from offshoring and those that benefitted from the commodity super-cycle that this triggered. DATA SOURCE: World Bank DataBank with author’s calculations. The upper-middle-income category includes most of the R11 nations—and most

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nations experienced spectacular growth takeoffs. The soaring income growth in the rapid industrializers set off a boom in commodity exports and prices known as the “commodity super-cycle.” The combination of rapid growth in developing nation and stagnate growth in G7 produced the Great Convergence; rich nations’ share of world GDP is back

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, came only to those developing nations that were on the receiving end of the offshored stages of production. Other developing nations benefitted indirectly via the commodity super-cycle that was launched by rapidly industrializing developing countries, especially China. This, in short, is why the second unbundling produced the Great Convergence while the first

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the I6. This rapid industrialization triggered historically unprecedented income growth. Since almost half of humanity lives in the I6 nations, their growth takeoffs sparked a commodity super-cycle that “lifted the boats” of commodity-exporting nations around the world. At first sight, this reorganization of international production might seem to be very much

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to rapid industrialization is exactly what happened in China and the other I6. The growth acceleration in the I6, however, produced outcome number three—the commodity super-cycle and attendant growth takeoffs in commodity exporting nations. The connection is quite direct. By stimulating the demand for commodities, the I6’s rapid income expansion

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Chinese wages. If the geographic extent of the GVC revolution does widen, more developing nations could join the rapid-industrialization parade. This might reignite the commodity super-cycle and the Great Convergence would continue apace. The second set of monumental changes would come from poor nation workers applying their talents inside rich nations

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, 230 Change and Challenge in the World Economy (Balassa), 263–264 China: BITs and, 104; bubonic plague and, 35; cities over 100,000 and, 31f; commodity super-cycle and, 135; comparative advantage and, 149; domestic value-added in export growth by sector 1994-2008, 94f, 95; European Renaissance/Enlightenment and, 38; flourishing of

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, 209–210 colonies, 55 Columbia, 262 Columbian Exchange, 38, 40, 41f, 46 Columbus, 39 “Commercial Policy Between the Wars” (Kindleberger), 64–65 commercial revolution, 43 commodity super-cycle, 7, 110, 135, 215–216 communication. See moving ideas communication technology (CT), 287. See also IT (Information Technology); moving ideas comparative (competitive) advantage: A7/developing

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Globalization and, 13; Old Globalization (first unbundling) and, 140; politics and, 12; Ricardo and, 124–126; U.S. and, 61–62. See also air cargo; commodity super-cycle; containerization; Old Globalization (Phase Three) (first unbundling) (1820 to about 1990); railroads; steam revolution; tariffs and protectionism; three-cascading-constraints view moving ideas (knowledge) (know

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World North Atlantic, 42–43f, 63, 77, 211. See also Columbian Exchange North-North production sharing, 202 North-North trade, 96, 143 North-South differences: commodity super-cycle and, 215–216; factories, 144, 160; industrialization and, 55–57, 208–212, 210f, 214–215; innovation and, 211–212; knowledge gap, 19, 161–165; spillovers

The Rare Metals War

by Guillaume Pitron · 15 Feb 2020 · 249pp · 66,492 words

.49 The drop in commodity prices was largely responsible for this setback, as this nationalistic approach was for the most part implemented during a global ‘commodities super cycle’ — fifteen years of plenty that began in 2000, during which market prices skyrocketed. It was a boon for buyer countries, but also put seller countries

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words

regularly create spikes in commodity prices as even the frenzied extension of mining (largely in the Global South) fails to meet demand. The so-called ‘commodities super cycle’ between 2000 and 2014 is a powerful example. Thus, as metals become more expensive and valuable, the very manufactured geology under the world’s cities

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 words

fast-growing economies and China, whose seemingly unstoppable 10-percent-a-year growth—and all the demand that came with it—triggered a so-called commodity super cycle that sent prices for metals such as copper, steel, and iron into record territory. One argument for why inflation remained largely under wraps was that

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indeed it did—over the next year cotton surged 300 percent, along with a host of other commodities in what economists took to calling a commodity super-cycle largely based on insatiable demand from China. (Sornette, in a paper detailing his results, said cotton “was and still is in a bubble without showing

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

by James Crabtree · 2 Jul 2018 · 442pp · 130,526 words

mid-2000s. In the consumer economy, millions of Indians bought cars, built houses, and took flights for the first time. What was called the global commodity “super-cycle”—driven in particular by rising demand in China for minerals like coal, bauxite, and iron ore—kicked off a dash for natural resources across India