Material_culture. Social_science. Pilar Rahola por La Gaceta de Tucumn. These strikes are the upshot of a decade of blunt mantra. The strike spread through energy plants around the country yesterday - only a few thousand strikers but high octane in political resonance.
This stirs deep waters, reaching far beyond the fairness of this contract for migrant workers. Trade unionism is a fading political voice. As its life-blood ebbed, so pay inequality grew: strikes hit their lowest level in 2005, at just 157,000 days, against 3.5m days 20 years ago. Only a third of the workforce is unionised, a mere 16% in the private sector. Unions are not blameless, having directed too few resources to recruiting the neediest. It was a mistake to affront some of the few left in a strongly unionised sector. Globalisation is good: that has been Brown's clunky mantra since time immemorial, a political message devoid of emotional empathy with voters.
Now Brown's sermons on the threat of protectionism sound the same dud note. What he never admits about globalisation or protectionism is who wins and who loses. Polly.toynbee@guardian.co.uk. The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page. The envelope, please. Dani Rodrik's weblog: Four cheers for Paul Krugman. Three of them for having won (highly deservedly) the Nobel prize and one for having been a beacon of light and guidance during the latest crisis.
Many would have thought that his increasingly public role--and contempt for everything Republican--in recent years had diminished his chances, but the committee made the right choice. Paul's contributions to international economics are legion. His ability to cut to the heart of the matter with just a couple of equations is unparalleled in the profession. Some years ago I was at a Festschrift conference for Jagdish Bhagwati at Columbia--Paul's teacher at MIT and himself a frequently mentioned name in connection with the Nobel prize. One of the speakers was Paul Samuelson. Marginal Revolution: Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize. He is cited for trade theory and, appropriately, location theory and economic geography.
He could have been cited for his work on currency crises as well. Here are the most basic links on Paul, it is hard to know where to start. I have to say I did not expect him to win until Bush left office, as I thought the Swedes wanted the resulting discussion to focus on Paul’s academic work rather than on issues of politics. So I am surprised by the timing but not by the choice. Here’s Krugman’s NYT column from today; there is so so much on him and by him. Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog. Russell Bishop: Top Tips For Surviving Today's Financial Challenges.
Today we begin a new series on tips for surviving the complex, fast changing world of finance that seems to be consuming so much of the world's attention these days.
We invite you to join in providing useful thoughts to other readers by posting your tips and suggestions as comments to these articles. We will be sharing two broad categories of tips with you, one focused on the practical, financial side of the challenges you might be facing and the other on the inner, more emotional challenges that arise. Some of the tips we will be exploring: On the Finance side: Financial Impact: Market Timing Just Doesn't Work You have probably heard advice against trying to be a market timer. On the practical side, if your 401 (k) has been slammed like just about everyone else's, about the worst thing you could do would be to panic and withdraw those funds.
If your plan is to buy back later, when things are better, you certainly will be able to do so. Why is this a bad idea?