The Redolent Smell of Profits Crosses All Borders

From the FT article "US Studios Get Taste for Bollywood":

International investors are preparing to make an unprecedented onslaught on Bollywood this year, with several Hollywood studios and a group of London-listed funds looking to take a share of the world’s most prolific movie-making market.

Studio groups such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Viacom – which controls Paramount Pictures – and Disney are working on new releases and partnerships that will give them an entry into India’s once closed and idiosyncratic movie industry.

Bottom Line: As developing economies like India grow and prosper, and as their middle classes emerge with increasingly higher disposable incomes, they become increasingly attractive as profitable consumer markets for firms in developed economies like the US. International trade and globalization are win-win, not win-lose as you would think from Lou Dobbs and the media. The "smell of profits" has a strong odor, penetrates globally across all international borders, and U.S. studios have picked up the redolent scent of profits in the booming Indian movie market.