What if North Korea becomes a problem again? What if globalization, as we know it, is completely gone?" We have terms like reshoring and friend-shoring. Where you locate is now also affected by geopolitics. Moreover, inflation remains a problem worldwide. In our case, as the joke goes, "Sibuyas could now serve as your earrings."
Global economic developments  The global economy started to recover at an accelerated pace during the course of 2003 and the first quarter of 2004 and then growth seems to have slowed down somewhat in the second quarter of this year. This was mainly due to slower growth in the United States and China.