PowerPoint slides of doom

Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, a top Canadian investment bank, has put together a fascinating PowerPoint presentation (ppt) on “The Age of Scarcity.” Here’s one slide that illustrates the astonishing rate at which the world is decreasing its reliance on the U.S. economy: (Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky)

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, a top Canadian investment bank, has put together a fascinating PowerPoint presentation (ppt) on "The Age of Scarcity." Here's one slide that illustrates the astonishing rate at which the world is decreasing its reliance on the U.S. economy:

Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, a top Canadian investment bank, has put together a fascinating PowerPoint presentation (ppt) on “The Age of Scarcity.” Here’s one slide that illustrates the astonishing rate at which the world is decreasing its reliance on the U.S. economy:

(Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky)

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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