Archive for the ‘ECONOMY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS’ Category
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5 steps to understanding the global value chain
21 Jan 2012In today’s world, trading systems are global and with their global reach, they are complex. Each of us has to…
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If you have never lived through a day like this before, remember what if feels like to see history turn
07 Dec 2010My heart is sinking at the incarceration of Assange in London. That wasn't necessary. That does not bode well.
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Wikileaks and the Emperor’s Clothes
03 Dec 2010Wikileaks - the non-event. Lame analysis from embassies. Maybe something more is coming. For now, it seems to be emperor's clothes. Put on clothes if you are uncomfortable. It's what the rest of us do!
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Legitimate anger
28 Nov 2010I don’t like anger. I don’t trust it. I don’t like anger. I don’t trust it. We just become one…
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If we don’t find productive enterprises soon, we might find we have another bubble
02 Jul 2010I am just a lowly work psychologist but I've been questioning economists for sometime about the industries which are flourishing and will be the power houses of the future. Now financial economists are asking too, because the very people who should be moving money accumulated in old businesses to invest in new businesses are not moving the money as they should. They are putting the money into salaries, in part and sitting on the rest. We intuitively know this is wrong. This is a (highly) simplified account of what should happen, what is happening and what will happen next.
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Ah, an intelligible (and funny) article about the Euro-zone
09 May 2010“we get it, we’re drunk drivers, we’re selling our cars and resolving to get around on a German-piloted bus.” Read the rest of this easy-to-understand article on the euro-zone and the European Central Bank
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Tighten your seat belts. Good overview of next installment of the financial crisis
15 Apr 2010I am optimistic but attend to the facts I think we live in oddly optimistic times, but only if we…
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Would I ever vote for the right?
09 Apr 2010Why the right make me shudder I have some right wing friends. Really I do. But I generally don’t like…
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I read good right wing papers but this is why I don't vote for the right wing
07 Apr 2010Top ranking political online newspapers If you are interested in current affairs, I highly recommend the Indian blog, The Acorn. …
