Around the World in Six Minutes: The United States may be the most powerful, richest country in the world, but we are still just part of the global economy and what others do affects us…and what we do affects them. Dr. Alan Beaulieu of ITR Economics offers a 6-minute ITR Trends Talk that offers a summary of ITR’s Global Forecast. If you sell or source from other nations, Dr. Beaulieu’s forecast, this could be six minutes well spent.