The Global Economy

Send this article to Twitter!Impact of globalization in Africa with so many Chinese workers now based there.  An Aljazeera documentary.   Share on Facebook
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Send this article to Twitter!The laws of economics are universal.  Many people don’t want to believe it. i.e. they want to believe that somehow their countries are unique or are disconnected from these fundamental laws, but in fact, they are not. So, in an effort to increase your understanding of general economics, here is...
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve been focusing lately on trying to listen to the right people when it comes to economics.  i.e. to the people whose predictions were right when it came to predicting the global financial crisis and one of those people is the hedge fund manager Kyle Bass.  I like his analysis...
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Send this article to Twitter! I was reading a blog post the other day about the debt crisis in America and it’s impact around the world (particularly  as it applies to fiat or paper currencies) — Essentially, what is happening is that governments in Europe & America  have decided to “socialiazie” risk by  not...
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Send this article to Twitter!I’m running out of things to write about these days.  Never thought that would happen, but anyway, today, I want to talk about a the famine ravaging through Somalia and parts of northern Kenya.  I’d like to talk about it in relation to a blog post I was reading on...
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Send this article to Twitter!Well…it’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog and I thought to myself and said hey! you really need to put something up.  So, what’s been on my mind lately? Well…the twilight zone.  You know that zone between fantasy and fiction. Yup.  I’ve been thinking about that a lot...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was reading a blog post on productivity (my favorite subject) and I found this interesting conclusion about what it is begining to mean for the west in terms of future low employment numbers and how it can help your understanding of other economies or businesses in general. I’ll begin...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was reading a blog recently where an economist who had predicted this global recessionary cycle talked about why he led what he referred to as a Multiple flag life style.  He believed this lifestyle would protect him against political turmoil or economic shock waves occurring around the world.  Anyway,...
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Send this article to Twitter! I want to continue my discussion on failed states, Egypt, Kenya and what it’ll mean for  many of us and our futures.  In this regard, I found another very interesting post from a blog  that I regularly read called Zerohedge.com.  The post was on Egypt, but it wasn’t confined...
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