Category: Global Economy

True Economic Indicators

  Sorry to be away so long.  Death in the family.  Speech to finish and article to finish.  Trip to Edmonton and Ottawa to plan, etc. Lots of good stuff below, but in no particular order… *     *     *     *     * A good friend has sent me the following article re income distribution.   http://www.alternet.org/economy/147469 [...]

Thursday July 8th, 2010 in Global Economy, Income Disparity, The Economy, US Politics | Comments Off

Goldman Sachs to Blame

  After these many months and millions of words and hundreds of different theories, it’s now finally clear where the blame in the near meltdown of the world’s  financial system lies. We can see clearly now that deregulation, beginning in the U.S., has been at fault.  And who was pushing this unprecedented deregulation?  None other [...]

Tuesday April 20th, 2010 in Global Economy, Health Care, US Politics | Comments Off

Globalization/Important Facts

  Do you visit www.commondreams.org?  Try it.  Valuable. *     *     *     *     * In the last few years there have been some excellent books written and published on globalization, and many full of much nonsense. Millions of ridiculous words on the subject by right wing columnists appear every month in our newspapers. One of the [...]

Friday April 2nd, 2010 in Environment, Global Economy, Globalization, US Politics | Comments Off

Euphoria / Ominous Signs

  Wow.  Or I mean double wow!!!!  Never ever saw anything like it.  Not just the fabulous athletes.  Not just all the wonderful medals. Yes, they were all super, but what was so incredibly exciting was the response of Canadians, the patriotism, the flags, the belting out of O Canada all over the place, the [...]