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Free Trade: Why everybody has budget deficits
July 9, 2016
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Governments of developed countries all around the world are running budget deficits right now, and the reason follows from free trade. I have posted before
Trump: Real Problem, No Solution
May 31, 2016
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The USA does have a real problem. Donald Trump has a campaign slogan ‘Make America Great Again’. So has America stopped being great? The USA
Lessons from SciFi: Future Expansion
May 31, 2016
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The actor Morgan Freeman has declared he is determined to produce a movie based on the novel ‘Rendevous with Rama’ by Arthur C Clarke. Great
Population Growth Change Lag: The Population Pipeline
May 16, 2016
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There is a life-time length lag or delay between any change in birth-rates, and those birth-rates being fully reflected in the population growth (or reduction)
Limits to free trade: moral outcomes
May 10, 2016
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Tariffs have almost universally been declared a bad idea. My point is that while it may be true that tariffs do not normally produce positive
Jobs in the ‘ECO’ age part1: outsourced & offshored?
May 9, 2016
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A friend was commenting on how her employer, a major ‘blue-chip’ employer, was transforming the workplace. The shift in emphasis is to less work needing
Population: Why more than the current change is required.
May 3, 2016
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If you are not aware that the rate of population increase has slowed significantly, then you can refer to some of the pages in this
Industrial/Growth Age vs Information/Eco Age
May 3, 2016
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Industrial/Growth Age Characteristics (discussed in detail later in the post) automation replaces manual labour time to travel continually decreases automation and culture spreads around the
Population: just how did the ‘engine’ switch off
May 1, 2016
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I have commented several times on how the ‘engine for global population growth’ has been switched off. Most of us will have noticed how family
Secondary terrorism: the evolution of terrorism
November 21, 2015
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Terrorism has evolved to thrive in the environment we have created. Understanding that evolution is the first step in combating terrorism, the second is the