Echoing the words of President Kennedy, “We will go to the moon and do other things, NOT because they are easy but because they are HARD.” In a nutshell that is what raising United States debt limit is all about, if it was an easy issue there will be no need for the politicians to […]
Creating the Illusion of Wealth
How to get upgraded to first class… and beat the government at its own game. A colleague of mine, Chip, saw the stub of my Lufthansa Chicago to Munich airline ticket and the bold letters that read 2A – FIRST CLASS. These seats routinely sell for $5,000 or higher. Chip also knows I would never […]
Egypt’s instability and the economic implications
Instability is the greatest threat to economic development “Once you let the genie out of the bottle, you never get it back in.,” and this is the conundrum President Hosni Mubarak is facing at the moment as unrest claims Egyptian landscape. The ongoing uprising has both immediate political and economic implications for Egypt and its […]
Republican victory and Democratic defeat: Making sense of the mid-term election shellacking
http://www.afripol.org/afripol/item/196-republican%E2%80%99s-victory-and-democrat%E2%80%99s-defeat.html “The rent is too dawn high,” New York gubernatorial candidate Mr. Jimmy McMillan said but in this case “The unemployment is too dawn high” that’s what brought about Republican super victory. The American people believed that the country is moving in the wrong direction due to the state of the economy – “The economy stupid” […]
Nigeria: Inflation as tool to erode the foreign debt
http://afripol.org/afripol/item/40-nigeria-inflation-as-tool-to-erode-the-foreign-debt.html The greatest threat and the major contributory factor in the undermining of a given economy and its currency is inflation. The monetary well being of a nation can go under and deteriorated drastically when inflation rears its ugly head and a once buoyant economy can become sicken with depressing currency, GDP and lower […]
How Many House Members Own Stock In The Health Care Sector?
I haven’t heard any mainstream media reports as of yet, prior to this repeat "Black Sunday" vote that is scheduled to occur on this blatantly unconstitutional "deform" that is being shoved down the American people’s throats once again, (and similar to the government bailouts and that bogus Cap & Trade measure), on just how many of those […]