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The World According to IP

 

As 2013 comes to an end, there is a great amount of confusion among everyone from CEOs of commercial corporations to those of investment banks: Where are we going? Up or down? Asia or the West? Peace or war? Bull or bear?

 

There are good reasons for this confusion: earnings are down, politics are unstable, power appears to be shifting, and national economic models are in flux.

 

How does one make a call in this kind of environment?

 

It's easy, if you know where the center is - the motivating force that is driving everything else: