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Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. A new report on the global economic outlook has recently ...

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Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. For much of the past decade, the U.S. stock market has ...

Discover what the World Economic Forum (WEF) does, its annual Davos meeting, and its significant impact on global economic, social, and environmental issues.

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