The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Where We Are Winning – Where We Are Losing: Futurologists Publish Annual Report on Major World Problems and Opportunities Berlin 7th July 2010 – Can civilization implement solutions fast enough to keep ahead of the looming challenges? The Millennium Project, a global independent think tank of futurologists, and thought leaders, today published its 14th report …
Author Robert Bryce 92 of 93 people found the following review helpful: Nutrition Action for Energy Appetites, April 16, 2010 By Jon Boone (Oakland, MD USA) – See all my reviews With Power Hungry, energy journalist and Austin apiarist Robert Bryce marshals lots of accurate numbers in context to make plain how modern culture exacts …
Posted on May 11, 2010 By William Pfaff The obituaries written of the European currency, the euro, have demonstrated divergences in national and cultural temperaments, the European funereal and laden with gloom about the future, but unyielding, and the American and British cheerfully and self-satisfiedly shoveling earth onto a casket of euros already six feet …
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EuroZone All In By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, 10 May 2010 The eurozone self-rescue plan announced last night has three main elements: At first pass this package might seem to be in with what we recommended But the European central banks have come in very early …
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One of Two “Best” on China in Africa February 22, 2010 Robert I. Rotberg, contributing editor Of the modest number of books focused on China in Africa, this is one of the two best, and both are unique–if you buy only one, at least read my summary of the other, China Safari: On the Trail …
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The author of this article, Simon Johnson, is a highly regarded economics professor at MIT and former chief economist of the IMF. He has long argued persuasively, at least to my thinking, that the bailout of the “to-big-fail” banks in the US (and UK) did not work to solve the toxic asset problem, but merely …
Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the IMF, lays out the political case for “Trust Busting” in the 21st Century — it is a political argument that Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt would have understood and probably approved of. Chuck A Trap Of Their Own Design Simon Johnson Baseline Scenario January 19, 2010 At this stage …
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