Economy
A Modern POV (Point of View)
Some people like to forward emails, I like to put TED videos on my blog. Over the last couple of years, TED videos have consistently knocked my socks off and have made me reconsider all kinds of things about the world today – I love them. This is a video that made me think about [...]
Uncommon common sense
I watched this video today and loved it. It’s from a recent TED conference, and the speaker offers a slightly different understanding of what happened in the American financial institutions. From there, he talks about how we as a nation are dealing with the problems today and what our politicians are doing. In America we [...]
Blows the doors off the concept “Renewable Energy”
Japan – Bar Code Technology
When I first visited Japan in 2006, the entry stamp I received at immigration was actually a sticker with a 2d barcode. This time around, I got the same entry stamp when I entered the country, and I’m seeing it other places.
This is old news in Japan, and 2d barcodes have been introduced in the [...]
Summary of the US Economy from the CIA
I have been looking at some details of various countries on the CIA website during the last few weeks. It’s a great website,
it talks about history, economy, government, people, geography, etc. I decided to read through the CIA’s description of the US Economy. I’d like to highlight a few things of note on the summary [...]
Major GDP Adjustments
Recently the World Bank made some pretty major adjustments to the GDP of both China, India and a few others. China and India both had GDP reductions of 40% from previous estimates, which is huge. China went from an almost $9 trillion dollar GDP, to a $5.8 trillion dollar GDP. The Economist wrote a brief [...]
