Raw Intelligence

I read an insightful commentary by William Pesek Jr.: Redrawing the billionaire map. It's a fascinating analysis of an amazing list of 691. The author attempts to rationalize in terms of geoeconomics several interesting facts about the uneven distribution of billionaires around the world, among which is that there are more Indian tycoons than Chinese ones today. I find his arguments cogent. Incidentally, there's a profile of Lakshmi Mittal, the richest Indian whose wealth is intimately related to the rise (more accurately, reemergence) of China. It's clear that the rivalry between China and India (the two countries have so many parallels) will dominate the global economic scene in the days ahead.