Sequoia's Brand Change May Lead The Way For Other Companies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Whereas the initial effect of the 'B-52's of globalization' was to promote an Americanised approach to finance, accounting and regulation across many emerging markets, this may change, to the detriment of Western service companies.
49% : A quote I often like to deploy comes from Jagdeesh Bhagwati, one of the leading policy 'lights' and advocates of free trade at the start of this period of globalization who said that American multinationals were the 'B-52's of globalization'.
49% : If the American corporate empire is well, then the British corporate scene is withering (recall that the East India Company was perhaps the first company to become involved in geopolitics - with horrendous consequences for India, please see William Dalrymple's The Anarchy) as the consequences of Brexit push large companies to delist from London and move to New York or the euro-zone (one of the notable movers is CRH which with a business in nearly every European country and American state is not unsuited to a US listing).
46% : Thirdly are companies that involve transfers of data, money and services (capital flows rather than trade flows) and I think the interesting disruptive factor here will not so much be that brands will need to change, but that underlying modes of corporate governance and regulation will increasingly diverge between the large regions.
41% : It was a fitting image for an economist who counselled the likes of the GATT and other world institutions to let free trade flourish, unrestricted by concerns over labour laws and whose main works were titled 'Free Trade Today' (2002) and 'In Defense of Globalization' (2004).

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