Soros: Reorganizing the world order
These two articles below discuss the distintegration of the global financial system and the need to reinvent a financial system beyond The Bretton Woods.
A quick overview of the Bretton Woods system (wikipedia) is important as the Global Financial Crisis was deemed by Soros as worse than the Great Depression and the Bretton Woods system… Continue reading
Soros: Instability of Global Markets is Self Interest
The financial markets can be regarded as a circulatory system of liquidity. The economic theory that is used to support free markets was derived from Adam Smiths free market theory depicting self interest as the invisible hand as follows (wikipedia):
“…the term “an invisible hand”: in The Theory of Moral Sentiments[68] (1759) and in The… Continue reading
Soros: Failure of Market Fundamentalism
This is an overview of George Soros the 35th richest man in the world and considered one of the most successful investors. He had a change of heart and started to question his own beliefs, as a result he started the Open Society Institute to challenge current thinking and to encourage openness and new ideas.… Continue reading
The Social Costs of the Illicit Drug Markets
My friend has a son who is now a drug addict. He was considered gifted in 5 areas. He is a genius in one area, he is very conceptual and has excellent language skills. He is a person who makes his own clothes, he is a professional chef, cuts his own hair, an artist and… Continue reading
Vote 1: A Civil Manifesto
I wrote this at 4am in the morning and sent it to all the Parliamentarians just prior to the election where John Howard was replaced by Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister of Australia. I felt inspired to write a Civil Manifesto.
A CIVIL MANIFESTO
A Civil Manifesto is dedicated to all those
who seek a… Continue reading
Does Work Disconnect You from the Real Life?
After 15 years I have come back into the workplace from where I started. I worked in my early working life in approximately 400 companies. I have worked in Insurance, banking, accounting, law, advertising, music, television, brokers, video production, telecommunications, aviation, foundries, manufacturing, mining, wealthy individuals, and one of the most memorable was a submarine… Continue reading