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After the cardinal re-shape of the British Empire/British Commonwealth in the early sixties of the twentieth century especially, granted independence Pacific nations are traditionally imagined from far away as a paradise on the Earth where singing...
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What do the indexes say about America’s claim to be the greatest country in the world?
Unfortunately on many social justice and standard of living scales the United...
made popular Feb 3 2011
Devastating floods in Australia has taken a toll on economics, affecting industries and killing at least nine people. Prices on coal used to steel producing jumped up...
made popular Jan 8 2011
A Happy New Year-and a pragmatic assessment of carbon trading reality is attached.
It seems, those privileged to get money from some governments’ coffins much more...
made popular Dec 31 2010
There is a famous slogan from a banner carried by striking miners at Waihi in 1912, “If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, good god we have bought it fair”...
made popular Dec 6 2010
The Treasury Department recently unveiled the new $100. The bill includes several new ‘features’: colors, holograms, and even a 3-D strip.
The bill is...
made popular Apr 26 2010
According to a new report the value of wages in New Zealand will decline 0.5 per cent in the next 12 months as inflation exceeds salary growth. While wages are expected...
made popular Mar 25 2010
The Unite Union’s campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour got an interesting new fact to use in the argument last week; Prime Minister John Key...
made popular Feb 22 2010
TRADITIONAL iCONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.
INDIAN ìCONOMICS
You have...
made popular Jan 14 2010
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President Obama has gotten all the attention with his undeserved Noble Peace Prize, but this is the year of the femme.
Five women won the Noble this year,...
made popular Oct 13 2009
While global warming meetings had most recently been overshadowed with international gatherings on economics crisis, news from outer space is no a Fool’s Day joke...
made popular Apr 1 2009
Given the bossy mannerisms of US and EU, the WTO provisions are proving nightmarish for the smaller nations. The adage that ’small fishes are engulfed by the big...
made popular Jan 27 2009
Few people probably know that the latest Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Paul Krugman, actually wrote a book on the Philippines. The most important weakness of that...
made popular Oct 20 2008
For years American President George Bush has been the object of amenity for Latin American socialist leaders and their supports as an imperial capitalist. But not so...
made popular Oct 10 2008
The United States government has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into private banks and insurance companies to essentially save the United States and world...
made popular Sep 30 2008
In this article I will talk about a startling trend I have seen in the people whom I see, interact with, read about, and love. There seems to be a sense of...
made popular Sep 17 2008
Does the open market economy of Afghanistan takes into estimation extra-market conditions, including history?
Afghanistan economy has always been open market; in the...
made popular Aug 2 2008
In a week devoted to cures for our growing economic ills, Barack Obama made the conventional political promise: To every “middle-class” American, a chicken...
made popular Jul 10 2008
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Proud Jewish mother walks on a street with two little children and meets her friend. “What beautiful babies you have!” exclaims the friend, “How old are they?”...
made popular Jul 8 2008
Much attention has been paid of late to the so-called “BRIC” group of nations — that being Brazil, Russia, India and China. Apparently, Russia...
made popular Jun 26 2008
For some reason pickup trucks and SUVs have rooted themselves in American culture. Apparently they serve as symbols for strength, power, durability and more values that...
made popular Jun 7 2008
Whatever happened to the Great Depression? Not the real one from 70 years ago, the lost decade of unimagined misery and Steinbeckian angst, the worst period in the...
made popular May 7 2008
The souring Canadian job market and rising costs of being a teenager with all the indulgences expected with life for a teenager in Canada – a slice of pizza, drive to...
made popular Apr 28 2008
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IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives for the “Sustainable Capitalism: finance, commodities and the common good” conference organized by Aspen Institute Italia and hosted by the World Food Programme in its Rome’s headquarters, Saturday, Feb. 21,...
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