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<title><![CDATA[How to Invest Inside Frontier Markets]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/global-markets/articles/first-world-second-world-third-world/11/27/2012/id/46142</link>
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			Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:29:00EST
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<![CDATA[MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL In my last commentary at Minyanville, I discussed a redefinition of three related terms: the First, Second, and Third Worlds.  The old definitions reflected a reality of the 20th century, but fail to reflect the reality of the second decade of the 21st century.  If, as so many agree, we need "outside the box" thinking to deal successfully with today&#39;s world, then we must begin by re-examining the terminology we employ when it remains in common use, but is no longer useful.

I want to expand on that theme today.  However, terminology again needs redefinition.  In this case, ]]>
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	<![CDATA[MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL In my last commentary at Minyanville, I discussed a redefinition of three related terms: the First, Second, and Third Worlds.  The old definitions reflected a reality of the 20th century, but fail to reflect the reality of the second decade of the 21st century.  If, as so many agree, we need "outside the box" thinking to deal successfully with today&#39;s world, then we must begin by re-examining the terminology we employ when it remains in common use, but is no longer useful.

I want to expand on that theme today.  However, terminology again needs redefinition.  In this case, ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[Op-Ed: Decouple Yourself in the New Third World]]></title>
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			Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:00:00EST
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<![CDATA[MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL In times past at Minyanville, I have discussed the subject of "decoupling" in reference to economies and financial markets.  I want to discuss decoupling again, but in a very different context.  I want to encourage you to consider "decoupling" your life, at least in part.

For four and a half decades, I have lived and/or worked outside the US in a few dozen nations that were among those called the "Third World" in the past.  I am old enough to remember when that term first came into use some 50 years ago.  Meant to describe a host of ]]>
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	<![CDATA[MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL In times past at Minyanville, I have discussed the subject of "decoupling" in reference to economies and financial markets.  I want to discuss decoupling again, but in a very different context.  I want to encourage you to consider "decoupling" your life, at least in part.

For four and a half decades, I have lived and/or worked outside the US in a few dozen nations that were among those called the "Third World" in the past.  I am old enough to remember when that term first came into use some 50 years ago.  Meant to describe a host of ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[The Real "Decoupling" That Deserves Your Attention]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/decoupling-economic-decoupling-decoupling-definition-american/11/17/2011/id/37977</link>
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			Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:20:00EST
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<![CDATA[The socio-political mess in the US could be called surreal, although that is much too sophisticated a word for it. Infantile, absurd, ridiculous...there are so many substitutes that speak the truth more clearly.
	
	In past essays at Minyanville, I have discussed the "decoupling" of non-US economies from the US economy (see: Global Decoupling Underway and A Look Back on the Decoupling Debate). I pointed out that it is a process, not an event, something that is underway and continuing. To debate whether it has "occurred" or not is a waste of time. It is occurring and will continue until there ]]>
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	<![CDATA[The socio-political mess in the US could be called surreal, although that is much too sophisticated a word for it. Infantile, absurd, ridiculous...there are so many substitutes that speak the truth more clearly.
	
	In past essays at Minyanville, I have discussed the "decoupling" of non-US economies from the US economy (see: Global Decoupling Underway and A Look Back on the Decoupling Debate). I pointed out that it is a process, not an event, something that is underway and continuing. To debate whether it has "occurred" or not is a waste of time. It is occurring and will continue until there ]]>
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<title><![CDATA[A Look Back on the Decoupling Debate]]></title>
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			http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/decoupling-decoupling-finance-ermerging-market-coupling/1/28/2011/id/32470</link>
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			Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:45:00EST
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<![CDATA[Back in March of 2008, I wrote a brief commentary on the then-active discussion of "coupling" and "decoupling" titled Global Decoupling Underway. In it, I wrote: 

The current debate over whether or not emerging market economies are "coupled' or "uncoupled" to the US misses the point. It suggests that this is an "either/or" situation. Nonsense. This is a transition from one to the other. The economies of emerging markets haven't decoupled from the US economy, they're decoupling. It's a waste of our time to argue whether the transition is over (is a transition ever really over?), but it's worth our ]]>
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	<![CDATA[Back in March of 2008, I wrote a brief commentary on the then-active discussion of "coupling" and "decoupling" titled Global Decoupling Underway. In it, I wrote: 

The current debate over whether or not emerging market economies are "coupled' or "uncoupled" to the US misses the point. It suggests that this is an "either/or" situation. Nonsense. This is a transition from one to the other. The economies of emerging markets haven't decoupled from the US economy, they're decoupling. It's a waste of our time to argue whether the transition is over (is a transition ever really over?), but it's worth our ]]>
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