Economics

Deloitte Review articles by topic

Mind the gap
What business needs to know about income inequality
Ira Kalish
There is a widening gap between the affluent and everyone else in the U.S. Trends suggest the affluent will be able to spend more while the rest of the population may be seriously constrained, with widespread leveraging of home values now a memory. What are the implications for companies that sell goods and services to consumers?
The great debate
Inflation, deflation and the implications for financial management
Carl Steidtmann, Dan Latimore and Elisabeth Denison
Executives must bet on whether the economy, their industry and their business will experience rising prices or the balance sheet and operational effects of deflation. The decision is made still more difficult by the simple fact that few senior managers have had to deal with either high inflation or deflation in their careers.
Common good
An interview with Lord Stephen Green, UK Minister for Trade and Investment
Christopher Gentle
Corporate social responsibility is not some kind of appendage that has to do with the philanthropic budget. It is the very essence of what the business is about and needs to be thought of as such in terms of the governance and the culture that the leaders are responsible for maintaining within the company.

The long unwinding road
Global consumers and the economic imbalance. Review the scenarios through which the imbalance might be corrected, and the unwinding of that imbalance may well lead to a new path for global consumer spending.
The great transformation
Not since the 1930s have we seen government policy response to a recession as transformative as the response by the U.S. government to the current economic storm - with corporate governance, green economics, energy and transparency taking center stage.
What next? Business in 2010 and beyond
There is no shortage of forecasts for 2010, which might be encouraging if they pointed to some kind of consensus. It’s enough to back leaders into making nebulous strategic choices, or to commit to one likely scenario. But that would be a mistake.
On transformation: A conversation with Governor Tom Ridge
Leading Pennsylvania from technology backwater to e-government trailblazer
The coming storm
How business can prepare for Federal Income Tax Reform