Globalisation Fractures

How major nations’ interests are now in conflict

Charles Dumas

ISBN 1846684242

ISBN 13 9781846684241

July 2010

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Subject: Business

In his previous books, The Bill from the China Shop and China and America: A Time of Reckoning, Charles Dumas was the first to identify the existence and potential impact of the Eurasian Savings Glut – most importantly how it would push US mortgage borrowing to excess, precipitating the global credit crisis. As we now strive to rescue the international financial system, he points to uncomfortable truths about the conflicts ahead.

The US has reverted to debt-driven growth (this time, government debt), and its economic benefit is waning while the risk increases. China is veering back to export-led growth and large surpluses, increasingly at others’ expense. Europe is squeezed between them, and the fixed-rate euro system is creating a subsidiary set of extreme imbalances: the Mediterranean cannot expand demand, while north-central Europe will not expand it.Globally, the choice may soon be between serially degrading US federal credit or putting up trade barriers. The first would undermine the world financial system, but the second would damage world trade, at huge expense to real incomes everywhere.

Globalisation Fractures confronts the inherent conflicts as issues to be urgently addressed. This is the battleground upon which the future of the global economy will be determined.

‘To understand the causes of the financial crisis, read this insightful analysis of how globalisation led to our present predicament. This book will teach you more about why the crisis happened than any blow-by-blow account by an alleged protagonist’
— Mervyn King – Governor of the Bank of England

‘Charles Dumas has consistently been one of the ablest communicators on the financial crisis – a man with a nose for danger. In characteristically acerbic style, he sets out the causes of our distress, seeks out those to blame and maps out the escape routes. Required reading.’
— David Marsh, author of The Euro – The Politics of the New Global Currency