¹ For a detailed discussion of these challenges, see Paul Laudicina, Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-making in a Confused and Troubled World (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012).

² See "World Economic Outlook," http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/update/02/.

³ U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, April 13, 2011

⁴ Robert J. Samuelson, "Rethinking the Great Recession," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2011

⁵ See "Back to Business: Optimism Amid Uncertainty," The 2013 Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index, https://www.kearney.com/research-studies/foreign-direct-investment-confidence-index.

⁶ See IMF, "Concluding Statement of the 2013 Article IV Mission to The United States of America, June 14, 2013, http://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2013/061413.htm.

⁷ See inter alia, International Energy Agency, Medium-Term Oil Market Report (MTOMR), May 14, 2013.

⁸ See inter alia, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, "Natural Gas Monthly," http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/monthly/?src=Natural-f2.

⁹The discussion at Marrakech summarized here occurred in the context of an escalating political and social crisis in Egypt, and three days before the military removed President Mohamed Morsi from office and suspended the Egyptian constitution.

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