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Dr. Hans Belcsák is President of S. J. Rundt & Associates and is the publisher of “Rundt’s World Business Intelligence Briefs,” “Rundt’s Financial Executive Country Risk Alert,” and ”FX-PRO Foreign Currency Forecasts.” He holds a Doctorate in Jurisprudence and Political Economics, is a regular contributor of articles to international trade & financial journals, and has made extensive contributions on foreign exchange strategies, and country risk assessment to several books on international finance.

Smoke and Mirrors?

Mar 1, 2010

Relations between the United States and China have been getting worse for months, both on the political side – with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly criticizing the leadership

Greek Problems Are Manageable

Feb 15, 2010

The Greek debt debacle is without a doubt the worst crisis the Eurozone has had to face in its short life, and at first blush it might appear as though the obstacles in the way of even a

No Easy Way Out

Feb 1, 2010

As the leading industrial countries are beginning to emerge from the ravages of the global credit and economic crisis and are starting to embrace exit strategies, they are all seeking

In Europe, Keep an Eye On the Corporate “Mittelstand”

Jan 15, 2010

The Eurozone officially came out of recession in the third quarter of last year, and activity is forecast to improve gradually during the course of 2010. Credit managers, however, will need to

Signposts to Watch

Jan 1, 2010

One of the more remarkable developments in 2009 was the way in which financial markets world-wide rebounded from their dramatic plunges. Who would have guessed, a year ago, that

Whither the Dollar?

Dec 15, 2009

The world’s foreign exchange markets are always on the lookout for signals that may give them a new direction, and when they detect such harbingers, they can turn around at the drop of a

Tremors In the Gulf

Dec 1, 2009

The dramatic reaction of the world’s financial markets to the request by Dubai’s government that creditors of Dubai World, one of three big state-backed conglomerates, agree to a standstill on

Watch Those Bubbles!!

Nov 15, 2009

As the US dollar continued its steep cyclical slide in recent weeks, intermittent rebounds notwithstanding, the voices became louder,

Protectionism and the Doha Round

Nov 2, 2009

The signs are multiplying that the US economy picked up in the third quarter, but there are so many negative factors still in the picture that the recovery is virtually certain to come in dribs...

The Taxman Cometh

Oct 15, 2009

Back in July, under the title “A Rising Tide of Red Ink,” I wrote in this column about the risk that attention in Washington at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will turn more and more to a...