Economy

IMF: Same Problems Plagued World Since Global Financial Crisis exploded in 2008

On day of the US election my inner feeling was to look at the continuing global financial crisis.

Here is a report from Reuters.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/imf-global-idINDEE8970FB20121009

IMF warns global economic slowdown deepens, prods U.S., Europe

 
 
Louisville Assembly Plant employees work to assemble the new 2013 Ford Escape on the production line at the company's newly transformed Louisville Assembly Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, June 13, 2012. REUTERS/John Sommers II/Files

By Emily Kaiser and Lesley Wroughton

TOKYO | Tue Oct 9, 2012 7:48pm IST

(Reuters) – The IMF said… Continue reading

Vote 1: A Civil Manifesto For Social and Sustainable Prosperity

I wrote this at 4am in the morning feeling inspired. I then sent it to all the politicians in the Australian Parliament. I didn’t receive any comment but I exercised my citizenship. I also last year placed it on Obama’s blog, I wondered how it would be received. I think I speak for many people.… Continue reading

International Day of The Girl: Empower Girls To Be Powerful Changemakers

Girls and born equal to males, taking free choices away from females creates abuse and oppression, how can women and men create happy functional families when females are seen as less.  The attitude towards females is modelled by fathers and other family members and passed onto son’s.  Economically they are seen as a… Continue reading

From Michael Moore to Assange ‘Free Enterprise or Freedom of Speech?’

I just switched on the television to find out that Julian Assange was to make a speech from recently granted asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. His speech is highlighted below this introduction and musings.  After his speech I turned the television station over and there was Michael Moore’s movie Capitalism:  A… Continue reading

Unemployment: Is it Better to Stand on Your Feet Then To Live on Your Knees?

I sent this to the Australian Prime Minister.  I don’t expect a response, but felt to express another perspective.  You never know if you never have a go.   You cannot have a voice unless you exercise it.  It is a practice and who knows maybe someone benefits.  A hand… Continue reading

No Fish in the Ocean by 2050

I was stunned to learn that at current rates we could fish out the oceans.  This is due to government subsidies to protect fishing industries.  I was interested to learn the failure to ban Bluefin Tuna fishing was due to political pressure from Japan.  I reflected on economic short termism versus long… Continue reading

Mohandas Gandhi

“God has no religion”

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