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Global Economy: Trade, Energy, and the Environment April 21, 2012 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.org

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China’s Impact on the Global Economy:Trade, Energy, and the Environment

April 21, 2012Robert KaulfussProfessor of EconomicsMiddlesex Community CollegeBeyondEconomics.org

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China’s Rapid Economic Growth

http://seekingalpha.com/article/173265-chinese-exports-can-emerging-markets-replace-the-u-s-consumer

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China’s Growing Dominance?

Weighted average of the share of a country in world GDP, trade, and in world net exports of capital from Arvind Subramanian's “Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance”

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Comparing Growth: U.S., India, & China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456964/html/nn1page1.stm

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Foreign Exchange Reserves Minus External Debt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Country_foreign_exchange_reserves_minus_external_debt.pngBased on CIA World Factbook data

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GDP PPP per capita

World Economic Outlook Database-October 2008, International Monetary Fundhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_PPP_per_capita_2007_IMF.png

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Demographics

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456964/html/nn1page1.stm

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China Adopts Fast Food

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China Adopts the Car Culture

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Insatiable Demand for Energy

Wall Street Journal

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U.S. Energy Sources

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Biggest Contributor to CO2

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CO2 Levels (Now at 390 ppm)

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Arctic Summer Minimum& Greenland Ice Melt•

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Surging Demand for Oil

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The Nominal Price of More Oil

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Peak Oil: Worst Case

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Oil Prices & Recessions

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Their Moonshot and OursThomas Friedman, 9/25/2010

China Inc. just named its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move China off oil and into the next industrial growth engine: electric cars.

Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan.

We need to be in a race with China, not just Al Qaeda. Let’s start with electric cars.

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Tianjin Eco-City In China:The Future Of Urban Development?