apathy is a stain on society! there’s never been a more important time to be opinionated!
CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer - says what needs to be said. People are hurting now. Jobs are being affected. Homes are being lost and companies are collapsing. How’s your investment net worth in recent weeks?
Reports today in the Jerusalem Post of fresh new sales to Iran by Russia of cutting-edge military hardware lends support to the notion that a frigid new Cold War is emerging between Russia and the West.
The JPost article, entitled “Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia”, suggests Russia is to sell 250 ‘advanced long-range [...]
Recent stock market declines, an ever-weaker Dollar, and an increasingly loud chest beating by nations beyond the U.S.’s rapidly shrinking sphere of influence suggests one disheartening but rapidly apparent reality. We are witnessing the rapid decline in global dominance - the unipolar / hyper-power world - of the United States of America and the emergence [...]
Every once in a while I get a comment from a reader. These are terrific because my opinions do indeed change as based on new facts, clarifications or even when I’m pointed to ‘real’ facts and not, perhaps, an over-reliance on faulty sources or assumptions. Hey - I’m human and I’m not an economist! I [...]
Article from June 25, 2007 published by The Daily Telegraph entitled “BIS Warns of Great Depression Dangers From Credit Spree” by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
Begins … “The Bank for International Settlements, the world’s most prestigious financial body, has warned that years of loose monetary policy has fueled a dangerous credit bubble, leaving the global economy more vulnerable [...]
Just as an increasing number of nations around the world join the growing demand for a more multi-polar world [1,2,3,4] and the demise of an over-extended United States – seemingly power-drunk on global domination - along comes a wave of speculation on the possible instability and ultimate collapse of the next supposed Hyper-power, China!
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The energetic French presidential race concluded yesterday with the election of moderate conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. But even as Sarkozy reaffirms France’s close relationship with the United States, the French will continue in their role as a diplomatic counterweight by reminding the U.S. of the challenges to be faced in the likely multi-polar world of the [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is literally running out of time - politically, militarily, and rather frighteningly, spiritually! Iran is teasingly close to an all-out war with the United States and the consequences for Iran, the U.S., and the world are enormous and potentially cataclysmic.
Politically:
Conservative Ahmadinejad was swept into power in August 2005 on a [...]
There is rarely a day that China is not mentioned by the mainstream media, online media portals or the blogosphere and for damn good reason! This century is rapidly transforming into the Chinese Century, the rise of globalization and the demise of slow sunset of the U.S.’s hyper-power status, at least economically, if not politically [...]
David Frum, the former speechwriter for President George W Bush normally pounds the Kool-Aid a tad too excessively for my liking - BUT this article (entitled, “Russian Democracy is Dying“) is right on the money. Succinct, non-partisan and well-thought out - if you can spare five minutes, I’d highly recommend.
- We do know … over [...]