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Some Thoughts and insights by many people way smarter than Alan Greenspan, and me, occasionally as well

Well, this is going to be the section dedicated to that cute little corner of the world, that cockfight known as economics. As of late, you may have noticed the BOOM! in your backyard, but that's just the police lobbying another tear gas canister at those pesky "anti-globalization" protestors. 

While the media has tried to portray us as stupid children who have nothing better to do with our time besides try to stand in the way of their global juggernauts of power, otherwise known as the NAFTA agreements, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, or whatever stupid plot those hardcore, yet ironically labeled  laizze-faire capitalists have concocted to cover their plans to steal everything, I think that the ideas behind the opposition are a lot more in-depth and wise than CNN likes to let on. Well, they would let on about it, if they even acknowledged our existence. I guess it's more important to show Allen Greenspan throw up his hands in the air, exclaiming "Hey, you elected him, not me! I can't deal with this!" while Michael Moore shouts at him "Hey, WE didn't vote for him.... he stole the election!" while the panel screams for blood; anyone's blood, it doesn't matter. Just something to satisfy their lust.

In other words, while the mainstream media of North America has completely gone insane, real journalists, and real thinkers have been organizing a resistance to something that we should be talking about and worrying.... the state of our world, and how those who have taken the self-appointed role of governing our planet are doing so.

You see, I've come to believe that the economic policies behind our system simply do not work for you and I, not to mention the children in the Andes, nor the mothers in the Indonesian sweatshops, and every other hardworking Joette and Joe. There is just something about "trickle down economics" that bothers me to my core. Maybe it's the fact that brilliant thinking like that has turned the greatest economy, the US's, into the one the furthest in debt, and continuing to spiral out of control in a dive that shows no sign of ending. Or maybe the fact that we're starting to have wars about the Earth's resources, in our "advanced" age. Or the fact that Einstein and others predicted this decades ago. But I dunno, I'm just another dumb kid in the streets. Me and thousands of others. Guess we're being fooled by logic, or something.

Either way, here's the section about Global Economics. Read some of the articles, essays, and reports on the bar on the right, and decide for yourself what you think of the policies that govern the world, and the thoughts, ideals, and philosophies of the people who actually care about something that's NOT money, money, money... a progressive society. I won't link anything that supports the right, cause 1) it's crap, you know that; and 2) CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, and Clear Channel already have tremendous advertising budgets. They don't need my help.

 

 

Or yours. Or anyone's.

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