"Brave New World" DiamondExchange
February 28 - March 3, 2009
Date: Monday, March 2, 2009
Presenter: Marvin Zonis
Presentation: Challenges for President Obama
1. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
DiamondExchange
Challenges for President Obama
March 2, 2009
Marvin Zonis, Professor
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Zonis@MarvinZonis.com
2. The Global Economy - Chilling Statistics
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European Union Industrial Production (Dec08 vs. Dec07)
-22.3%
China Imports (Jan09 vs. Jan 08)
-42%
China Exports (Jan09 vs. Jan08)
-17.5%
Taiwan Exports to China (Jan09 vs. Jan08)
-55%
Japanese Exports to China (Jan09 vs. Jan08)
-45%
Economic Decline (4thQ08 vs. 4thQ07)
Japan -12.7%
Eurozone -5.9%
U.S. –6.2%
3. Factory Output
(Most recent Monthly Data vs. Month Previous Year )
Country Percent Country Percent
Taiwan -43% Spain -15%
Japan -30 Poland -15
Singapore -29 Brazil -15
Hungary -23 Italy -14
Sweden -20 Germany -12
Korea -19 France -11
Turkey -18 U.S. -10
Russia -16 U.K. -9
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/02/28/2009
12. U.S. Economic Plunge
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New Home Sales, Jan09: 23,000
Fewest since records started – 1963
Total Housing Starts, Jan09: 464,000 (saar)
Lowest since records started – 1959
Single Family Starts, Jan09: 347,000 (saar)
Lowest since records started – 1959
Jobs Lost in 5 months, Sep08 - Jan09: 2.5 Million
Real Retail Sales, Jan09 vs. Jan08: -10.9%
Number of Containers (TEUs), Port Los Angeles:
Imports, Jan09 vs. Jan08: -14%
Exports, Jan09 vs. Jan 08: -28%
Capacity Utilization, Jan09: 72%
Lowest since 1983
17. Increasing U.S. Home Size
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U.S. Home Tenancy in 1971: 3.1 people
U.S. Home Tenancy in 2004: 2.6 people
1950’s Average US Home: 963 sq. ft.
1970’s Average US Home: 1,500 sq. ft.
Today’s Average US Home: 2,400 sq. ft.
Average Home Size In Average Home Size In
China: 400-800 sq. ft. Europe: 1,000 sq. ft.
National Association of Home Builders, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Intel
18. More than 80 Square Miles or
215,000,000 Square Meters!
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22. The End of the Up Escalator….
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“…men who were in their thirties in 1974 had median
incomes of about $40,000, while men of the same age in
2004 had median incomes of about $35,000 (adjusted for
inflation). Thus, as a group, income for this generation of
men is, on average, 12 percent lower than those of their
fathers‟ generation. While factors other than cash income
also contribute to economic mobility, these data challenge
the two-century-old presumption that each successive
generation will be better off than the one that came
before.”
The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2007
32. U.S. International Spending
($ billions)
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Category 2008 2010 (Request)
DOD 483.2 533.7
Special
Expenditures 141.7 133.0
Total DOD 624.9 666.7
DOE/Nukes/
Miscellaneous 22.6 25.5
National
Defense 647.5 692.2
Non-Defense
International 38.3 51.7
Affairs
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/and fy2010
33. The D.N.I. Dennis Blair on the Crisis
“The longer it takes for the recovery to begin, the
greater the likelihood of serious damage to U.S.
strategic interests”…Loss of faith in U.S.
stewardship of the global economy “…may make
it difficult to achieve long-time US objectives,
such as the opening of national capital markets
and increasing domestic demand in Asia.” But
the crisis also presents an opportunity, for the
U.S. to lead the way out of an economic crisis,
which “looms as the most serious one in
decades, if not in centuries.”
The Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2009
38. Humiliation
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Sun Yat Sen: China in 1924 was “a heap of loose sand”
that had “experienced several decades of economic
oppression by the foreign powers” and “as a
consequence is being transformed everywhere into a
colony.…”
Chiang Kai-shek: Writing in 1947, “During the past
hundred years, the citizens of the entire country,
suffering under the yoke of the unequal treaties which
gave foreigners special „concessions‟ and extra-
territorial status in China, were unanimous in their
demand that the national humiliation be avenged,
and the state be made strong.”
Mao Zedong in 1949: “Ours will no longer be a nation
subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up.”
Orville Schell, The New York Review of Books, August 14, 2008
44. Prime Minister Wen on Electricity
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After falling since July last year, electricity output
and power demand started to turn around
significantly since mid-February this year.
During the middle 10 days of February,
electricity output rose 15% yoy and 13.2% in
sequential terms. In particular, electricity
output in southern provinces, the major
industrial area in China which have been hit the
most by the global recession, also increased
10% yoy and 8% in sequential terms.
E mail from frank.fx.gong@jpmorgan.com, March 1, 2009
45. China Monthly Exports and Imports
($ billion)
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Brad Setser: Follow the Money, February 11, 2009
54. Vladimir Putin: Humiliation
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“The collapse of the Soviet Union was the
greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the
century.”
State of the Nation Address, April 25, 2005
55. Dmitry Medvedev
(September 1, 2008)
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quot;Russia, like other countries in the world, has regions
in which it has privileged interests. . . In these regions
are located countries which have friendly relations...
Russia will work attentively in these regions . . . these
quot;privileged” regions included states bordering Russia,
but not only those.
58. The Borghese Collection
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“Its richness was the result of
unscrupulous appropriation and
tyrannical extortion by the „Cardinal
Nepote‟.”
Paola Mangia describing the art collection of Cardinal Scipione, nephew of Pope Paul V,
1605-1621
83. The Miracle?
GROSS DOMESTIC EXPENDITURE ON RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
MILLIONS CURRENT PPP$
OECD Main Science & Technology Indicators 2008-2
84. Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
DiamondExchange
Challenges for President Obama
March 2, 2009
Marvin Zonis, Professor
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Zonis@MarvinZonis.com