Archive for May, 2010
According to Wikipedia, Investment is the commitment of money or capital to purchase financial instruments or other assets in order to gain profitable returns in form of interest, income, or appreciation of the value of the instrument. Typically, an investor had to go through a long procedure for investing his amount. The procedure involved calling the brokers or going to their offices and telling them about the investment order details. Afterwards, the brokers would enter that order in their systems, and their systems were joined to the exchanges and trading floors. This is the conventional method of investment also called “Offline Investment.”
Effects of globalization
This phrase has become very common now days that ‘we are living in an era of globalization’ but the point to ponder is that what actually the globalization is and how much we are getting or paying for this. This term ‘Globalization’ was once considered to be more or less an economic process but now it has got more depth as a comprehensive phenomenon that is reshaping our society. This empowering thought is nowadays implicating such a global connectivity that has made it possible to communicate within the whole world without any restriction of geographical boundaries, while this thing seems to be very fascinating similarly by going towards the other side of picture we can see that this crossing of borders is also producing many flattening effects of practice as well. Lets us consider both side of this phenomenon; the positive and the negative one and then decide which is beating the other.
