We Are the Introverts. 10 Myths About Introverts. In defense of prudes - Sex News, Sex Talk. At a neighborhood bar this weekend, a straight female friend of mine, having unfavorably sized up the romantic prospects in the room, implied that she wanted to kiss me.
Ah yes, the old standby of my generation: The drunken girl-on-girl makeout. The suggestion wasn’t shocking but it wasn’t particularly appealing either, so I politely declined — and she exclaimed: “Oh my god, you’re such a prude!” Global systemic crisis/October 2012 -The global economy sucked into a black hole and world geopolitics heated to white-hot: The seven key factors of an unprecedented double shock.
As LEAP/E2020 anticipated since the end of 2011, the end of summer 2012 marks the beginning of the revival for Euroland with the emergence of a positive dynamic fed by two lasting phenomena: first, the progressive operational installation of the instruments bitterly discussed and decided upon during the last 18 months and, secondly, the visionary spark brought by the political changes of the last six months which have put Euroland’s medium to long term future back in the middle of the decision-making process.
The Euro’s progress these past weeks offers a perfect illustration of the phenomenon (1). What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers. Economists sound warning over carbon tax. South Africa's high dependency on fossil fuel-powered energy has earned it a place among the top 20 carbon emitting countries in the world.
In this year's Budget Speech, Pravin Gordhan announced the implementation of a carbon tax for 2013-2014. A draft policy is being drawn up for public comment. Carbon pricing was the topic under panel discussion at the Mail & Guardian's Critical Thinking Forum on Tuesday, hosted by the M&G and BHP Billiton. Panellists drew a direct link between a carbon tax and rising electricity costs. As Michael Rossouw, executive director of Xstrata Alloys, argued: "We have not learnt to decouple energy growth from carbon usage".
Rob Jeffrey, Econometrix managing director, cited a recent study that revealed a carbon tax would reduce GDP by 3% by 2021, a sum that would amount to R88-billion. Carbon tax "South Africa makes up 1.1% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions," said Jeffrey. SA weathers storm, but food prices still set to double by 2030. Traditionally the cost of staple foods has gradually inflated over time, and future cost scenarios have taken this approach.
But a report released by Oxfam today has factored in the rapid changes in price that come about due to climate-related crop failures. Their most conservative scenarios see food prices doubling by 2030. Banks Will Always Suck At Trading, Badly Need A Volcker-Like Rule: Study. Science has spoken: Banks are doomed to suck at trading forever and should be stopped before they crash the global economy again.
A new study by economists Arnoud Boot at the University of Amsterdam and Lev Ratnovski at the International Monetary Fund finds that recent blow-ups in the banking sector -- JPMorgan Chase's $6.8 billion "London Whale" losses and that whole financial-crisis thingy, to name two -- are not isolated events, but "a sign of deeper structural problems in the financial system. " The only prescription? The Great Recession: Grasping at an understanding of the crisis. Why resource-rich countries usually end up poor. Photo by Walter Astrada/AFP/Getty Images.
New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries—including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique—raise an important question: Will these windfalls be a blessing that brings prosperity and hope, or a political and economic curse, as has been the case in so many countries? On average, resource-rich countries have done even more poorly than countries without resources. World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder.
Just in case you were beginning to think rich people were deeply misunderstood and that they feel the pain of those who are less fortunate, here's the world's wealthiest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, with some helpful advice.
"If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain," she said in a magazine piece. "Do something to make more money yourself -- spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. " Yeah, let them eat cake. Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it.
Logic Freaks. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world.
Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing. At least three Nobel laureates have expressed their concerns. At a very early stage Wassily Leontief in 1982 objected that models had become more important than data: “Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas … Year after year, economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data.”
In 1997, Ronald Coase complained: “Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.” Geoffrey M. The Good, Bad and Ugly of Capitalism. Modern banking's fatal flaw. Let's make everything FREE! An introduction to The Free World Charter. The End of Bigger. The Start Of Better. The Third Industrial Revolution - a response to the Economist.
A third industrial revolution. South Africa - ECONOMY. South Africa - The Economy South Africa TRADING ON JOHANNESBURG'S financial markets reached a new all-time high on April 26, 1994, reflecting the buoyant mood of voters of all races who were about to participate in the country's first democratic elections.
As South Africa emerged from the economic stagnation and international isolation of the apartheid era, the new government and its theme of economic reconstruction received international acclaim and encouragement. Powerful Pictures. Three sisters pose for photographs taken years apart.
A Russian war veteran visits the tank that he fought in which has been preserved as a monument. A child gives a gift to riot police in Bucharest. Retired Police Chief Captain Ray Lewis is arrested at an Occupy Wall Street protest. A monk prays over the body of an elderly stranger who died suddenly while waiting on a train in China. Why do we take economists so seriously? It's the economists, stupid! While we were not waving but drowning in soggy flags, economic stuff was happening. Big stuff, though it could not break through the gooey queen-fest. In the news blackout that was the jubilee, other countries were reporting the meltdown of the Spanish banks, and thus, eventually, the euro.
Obama was on the phone to Cameron telling him to do something about Merkel. It's all pretty dire. 47 Signs That China Is Absolutely Destroying America. Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement? Well, that is what China is doing to the United States. China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage. 97% Owned: New Documentary. Introductory videos The basics you need to know: Why is there so much debt? Why are house prices so high? How is money created? How can we fix money and banking?
Explained in plain English in short animations. Presentations by Ben Dyson & others from Positive Money How is money created? Ben Dyson, founder of Positive Money and other members of the team give clear answers. Banking 101 Do you really want to understand how banks create money, and what limits their ability to do so? Economists about money, banking reform, Positive Money Why don’t economists understand money?
Prof. Politicians, Journalists & Bankers Conservative MP, Labour MP, Green Party MP about money, banking reform, Positive Money. What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe - Business Analysis & Features - Business. This is the most remarkable thing of all: a giant leap forward for, or perhaps even the successful culmination of, the Goldman Sachs Project. Apologies Of An Economic Hitman. The Economic Hitmen – How It Is Done! How To Care For Introverts and Extroverts.
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