Archive for September, 2010

The U.S. trade deficit improved by $7 billion from June to July 2010, but Thunderbird School of Global Management Professor F. John Mathis, Ph.D., said that might not be a good thing. “The improvement is actually a negative thing,” Mathis said Sept. 9, 2010, on KFNN 1510 Financial News Radio. “Month to month, what it suggests is that expectations of economic activity in the United States are slowing down, and therefore we are importing fewer goods to the high-powered retail stores because consumers aren’t going to buy those goods.” Mathis reports on the U.S. trade balance each month on “Business for Breakfast,” a Phoenix-based radio news show. Click below to hear his latest report. | Podcast: Monthly report on KFNN 1510 Financial News Radio (6:44)

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The future finally has arrived for Brazil, Thunderbird Professor Roy C. Nelson, Ph.D., said Sept. 7, 2010, during the final installment of a four-part BRIC series organized by Thunderbird Executive MBA faculty and staff. “People have said Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be the country of the future. It will never actually quite make it to that point of getting to the future,” Nelson said. “That pessimism is no longer warranted. Brazil finally is stable. It is a place where you can invest and do business with great confidence.” Nelson, author of Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America, shared the platform with Thunderbird Adjunct Professor Katia Kinney, a Portuguese instructor from the São Paulo countryside. Podcast: Doing Business in Brazil (37:35)

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