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Will investors allow a banking collapse?
By Dickson C. Igwe
Now, one would have thought that after the banking crash of 2008, banks would have learned the bitter lessons of that time, never to be repeated. That was not the case.
A new year for another chance to build back better
Alred C. Frett
Will Someone Please Explain What Happens Next?
We ask what will Tomorrow bring only to find that no one has the answer and the best we can do, is prepare as best we can, knowing all we have in common is Time – Our Fears and Dreams may differ but your Second is my Second and your Decade is my Decade so, whether we are here or not, this year shall pass and whether we are there or not, the next year shall come.
DR man denied entry to VI escapes local quarantine - Hon Wheatley confirms
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Authorities in the Virgin Islands (VI) have confirmed that a native of the Dominican Republic who travelled to the VI and was subsequently refused entry by Immigration, has escaped quarantine as is now at large in the territory.
Social Billionaires
By Dickson C. Igwe
Austerity and Trickledown have failed the world: the wealthy who rule, must do their part to create a better planet.
A new economy for a post pandemic world
By Dickson C. Igwe
The 2008 financial crisis showed the Milton Friedman Economic Model of a Laissez-Faire, Production Oriented, Trickledown, Austere, and financially driven Economy, a paper tiger.
Is a big debt crash on the horizon? - Part B
By Dickson C. Igwe
The world is over 250 Trillion Dollars in debt: public plus private. Is that vast debt sustainable? Is this debt a bubble about to burst?
Sick Nation USA - Part 1: Racism has driven America into decline
By Dickson C. Igwe
People all over the world view the USA today alarmingly.
Outsiders - non-Americans- are at a loss for the downward trajectory of the supposedly most powerful country on earth.
The USA is no longer a draw for world travellers and migrants. The greatly valued Green Card is only attractive to desperate people from war-torn and economically depressed lands.
The post pandemic economy - Part 2
By Dickson C. Igwe
Capitalism and individualism, with the stress on the market economy, will not be able to deal with the New World of climate change, environmental degradation, and rising power polarities that have no respect for freedom and democracy.
The post pandemic economy Part 1
By Dickson C. Igwe
Climate change and unsustainable capitalism have pushed the globe close to the abyss.
Circa November 6, 2020, and Vice President Joe Biden has moved ahead in Pennsylvania and Georgia: the Democrats’ Blue Wall may have placed Joe Biden in the White House thanks to Black US Citizens who came out in huge numbers to vote for Biden despite Republican Party attempts to suppress the black vote.
The BREXIT horror hovering about the UK
By Dickson C. Igwe
Ok. This Old Boy, to the consternation of his army of critics, never believed Brexit was a good idea. He understood that in a world where regions were integrating and where the two main superpowers- China and the USA- were increasingly bellicose, staying within a united Europe offered the type of protection one obtains living in a well-fortified castle in a vast, terrifying, and violent forest.