This article is about China purchasing 51.5% of the shares for a Denmark bank called Saxo Bank. Although not the rst purchase of bank from China, this sharp increase in foreign investment shows the Chinese will invest in another form rather than just their core businesses. 

This article reminds me of the Bornshier reading we did on Foreign direct investment, and how FDI can cause negative and effect for richer and poorer countries. This purchase of Denmark's bank can be a negative short term growth for both countries, but may not be overall long term better for both countries. 

This article is about statistics pulled from the China 2030 report published by the world bank and China that showed a relative to United States income per person a "middle-income trap" of countries remaining a crowded GDP per person category. You can have a country with 2,000% higher GDP per person and still lie in the same category and below United States. 

This article reminds me of The World Systems Theory where we spoke about Core, Periphery, and Semi Periphery. We spoke about Semi-Periphery having characteristics of both core and Periphery. We saw a graph that showed little movement from changing position. 

This article is about new data showing not all wealth is being calculated for global GDP. Economists calculate 10% of the global GDP is being held offshore. This is said to be correlated with abundance of resources, and political and economic instability. This missing calculations in GDP suggests inequality at a even higher rate then predicted. 

This resonated with me with a slide we saw in class about Global inequality. The graph showed GDP more or less unequal from 1980-2010 and accounted for number of billionaires, also the net worth as % of GDP. This date from off shore GDP would skew this date to even more inequality. 

This article talks about Cronyism and how it may be the winner post- World War II. Cronyism is dened as a separate system of capitalism and open market economies. This sometime including collusion, markets can undermine democracy in business, and assist large economy players. Congress, elected ofcials can be controlled through these large economic players. 

This article reminds me of Comparative Institutionalism. We spoke about how rms use unique attributes to nd a protable place in global market. This no "one size ts all" shows that not every country can run their economy like the western societies. Prot can be made through other economic spectrums like cronyism. 

This article speaks of President Trumps main economic idea to increase GDP growth to 3-4%. Through competitive corporate tax rates, reducing regulation, increasing domestic production, and better trade policies. These new policies 

would make America a more attractive destination for investment, and would create a more stable work force. 

This article reminded me of the video we watched about investment in Iceland and how more appealing the reduction of tax rates and trade policies were for companies looking to make a move for their company. The video showed how productivity would increase worker market for employment.