Endnotes

ⁱ Energy Information Agency (EIA), January 2006. OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet. Blustein, Paul. Washington Post, 2005. Funds Blowing Foreign Bubbles? ⁱⁱ Reuters Commodity Index (NYBOT: CR). May 2006 to September 2006.

ⁱⁱⁱ Blustein, Paul. Washington Post, 2005. Funds Blowing Foreign Bubbles?

^iv McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company, 2006. $118 Trillion and Counting: Taking Stock of the World’s Capital Markets. Page 11.

^v U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR. Company 10-Q’s (Annual Reports.) All financial projections created via balance and income statement analysis. Assumptions in net income presume no substantial earnings charges.

^vi Bureau of Public Debt, U.S. Department of Treasury. Interest expense projections for full year 2006. October 5, 2006.

^vii eMedia Asia, 2006. Embedded Systems Conference China.

^viii Panet Ark, Reuters. September 2005. China Ponders Cost of Energy-Guzzling Industries.

^ix Toronto Stock Exchange, 2006.

^x National Resources Canada, 2006. Stone, Kevin. Potash.

^xi U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division/International Programs Center, 2006. World Population Information.

^xii INO.com, 2006. Historical currency data.

^xiii JPMorgan Chase & Co / Thompson Financial, 2006. www.ADR.com.

^xiv U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR. Company 10-Q’s (Annual Reports.)

^xv Yahoo Finance, Historical Quotes. December 2005 to August 2006. July 2004 to July 2006.

^xvi JPMorgan Chase & Co / Thompson Financial, 2006. www.ADR.com.

^xvii Morningstar, Inc., 2006.

^xviii Yahoo Finance, Historical Quotes. ^xix U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR. Company 10-Q (Annual Report.)

^xx Bloomberg.com, 2006. Buffett Makes $14 Billion Bet That Global Stocks Won’t Plunge.