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Big Box Stores and Local Economics

The Wal-Mart Phenomena is interesting. Wal-Mart today is the biggest supplier of goods to the American People, it is the biggest employer and could be said to be the distribution system for the Nation. No wonder all large corporations study its transportation and distribution models, Wal-Mart has wo...More...

New Survey Shows Decrease In House Prices

House prices have continued to fall, a new set of figures has indicated. In figures released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), 14.6 per cent more respondents reported there was a fall, rather than a rise, in house prices over the course of September....More...

Economic Down Cycle - Spotting Warning Signs and Paradigm Shifts

Business cycles come and go and they are not evil, they are merely the way of things, the flow if you will. Think of it as waves on a beach, they come and go, then there is low and high tide and full moon high and low tides; and the ninth wave of a set of ninth set. Additionally, there is the Black ...More...

Canadians 2nd Only to Greeks in Personal Debt

When it comes to personal debt levels, it's no surprise that Greeks top the charts, but guess who's in 2nd place? One might expect to hear Spain, or Italy, or some other country in a depression, but in fact it's Canada. Canadians are hog wild over debt, and have been for a decade or m...More...

Relationship - Collapse of the US Economy and Baby Boomer Retirement

The first baby boomer officially retired earlier this year. This means that there will be a larger number of boomers entering retirement in the upcoming couple of years. With all these new retirees, the number of people that will be dependent on Medicare and social security is bound to balloon....More...

Is the Chinese Economy and Society Super Stable?

China has experienced astronomical and exponential growth over the last 20-years, and at the rate at it has progressed it will be difficult for it to continue on that straight line due to the size of its GDP now and the potential for future expansion. If China produces any more, there may not be any...More...

The Credit Crunch - Why it Happened

We have all been witness to some pretty incredible events over the last month or so that appear to have generated a new phrase in our language, "The Credit Crunch". We can see the effect in the failures of our banks and financial institutions but the question of why it happened and what we...More...

Requiem For Fannie Mae

What is to be done with the assets of Fannie and Freddie when they fail? We need some outside thinking to address the needs, the same off the shelf solutions won't get it done. Here's one that might....More...

5 Ideas for the UK Government to Help Small Businesses

It's been around 3 years since the credit crunch kicked off and the business community has been given nearly no headlines since that time. So here's a few business policy ideas that would help the UK Government to kick-start the UK economy back into decent growth....More...

Measures Of Welfare

Welfare is the general well-being of the people in a community. Welfare in general talks about good health, happiness and safety of people. The state or government is the main provider of welfare programme and these include hospitals, schools, good roads, communication facilities, security of lives ...More...

Gulf Cooperation Council Economic Integration

The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) is generally regarded as a success story for economic integration in Arab countries. Although economic integration among GCC member states is an ambitious step in the right direction, there are gaps and challenges ahead....More...

Venus Project

It is time for us to change. A resource based economy is necessary, and it is possible. We can take a few simple actions to realize a fundamental social transformation. Humanity has been enslaved by the idea of scarcity for well over two millenia. Scarcity is the idea that there is not enough to go ...More...

Federal Trade Commission in Charge of Energy Price Gouging; What a Joke

The Federal Trade Commission is now in charge of Energy Price Gouging? Okay so what does this really mean? Well it means during Energy Week in Washington DC, the FTC announce that it was in charge of FREE Act? What Free and Energy in the same sentence in the same week even, what a farce indeed? ...More...

What Money is and is Not - Part 1

This article is being published in two parts. It defines MONEY in a simple straightforward manner that will surprise the reader; and thereby point out many of the social problems related to the general misunderstanding of money....More...

China's Edible Oil Prices See an Increase

Due to the planting season at present, the international forward price of soybean will continue to rise for one or two months.Thus the price of edible oil will also see an increase of 10 percent this time....More...