The world is clearly afraid that “Great Depression 2.0” could be at hand. Downturns come and go, but the global economy as a whole hasn’t contracted since the 1930s. In fact, if things go deeply wrong in 2009, America is more likely to look like Zimbabwe than Japan.
So far the security industry was growing 25% per annum on the strength of installations in oil, refining, steel, cement, power sector among others. After Mumbai attack, security industry is expected to grow 125% as concerns spread to more sectors.
By naming a non-descript, non-existent organization as Deccan Mujahideen, the terrorists have maligned the Deccan plateau, one of the most pristine and beautiful terrains in India.
In the past 5 years, gold returns have doubled while other secotrs are down. It’s just another case of gold’s eternal value shining through. Much as it beckoned British explorers over vast distances of space and time to Timbuktu, gold now beckons us today.
US consumers have already abandoned premium red meat and the race is now between beef which already hold $66 bn market and chicken sales which has winged up 6.7% in 2008. Chicken is just not cheap protein but organic and natural too.