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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aLive chart: Age and population - YouTube2014-08-06T15:45:01+00:00
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asterisk2aflat world globalization globalisation Competition food security poverty prices disposable income population Mobile Creative Creatives knowledge worker economy skill-biased technological change Future of Work western competitiveness competitive advantage quality life middle class comparative property rights democracy Democratic Process Frontier Markets BRIC emerging market emergingmarkets frontiermarkets progress first mobilephone cellphone phone feature China Africa South East Arab transparency accountability Religion oversight free trade Career Politicians freedom press speech crony capitalism corporatism exploitation Wall Street sustainability sustainable bribery corruption presidency barackobama USA foreign policy affairs diplomacy Europehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0d7e69be27c5/dctp.tv | Das webTV der dctp2014-05-24T20:20:12+00:00
http://www.dctp.tv/filme/ddr_roland_berger_was-waere-gewesen-wenn/
asterisk2a> Thus subsidies and favouritism and golden handshakes etc etc. The world is flat. Period. Differences are not that stark in G20 anymore.]]>East Germany GDR Roland Berger economic history Iron Curtain policy error folly helmutkohl Helmut Kohl German reunification Deutsche Wiedervereinigung Makers productivity globalisation globalization capitalism competitive advantage competitiveness comparative comparative-advantage subsidies subsidizing industrial SME SMB Wohlstand Career Politicians China skill-biased technological change knowledge worker White-collar Blue-collar Mobile Creative Creatives capital skills skill progress Future Europe UK USA BRIC MINThttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4550267d3e79/BBC News - When will the UK pay its way in the world?2014-05-15T21:49:58+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27427398
asterisk2a> Now what was a little worrying was that the deficit on the current account reached 5.6% of GDP, or economic output, in the third quarter of 2013 and fell to just a little bit lower, 5.4%, in the fourth quarter. That 5.6% was - ahem - something of a milestone: it was the biggest quarterly deficit since records began in 1955. And it explains why the record aggregate indebtedness of the UK has been falling so slowly, and is still not much below 500% of GDP on the Mckinsey measure (though see my previous blog). [...] UK's - limp trading performance - for YEARS! ... COMPETING against BRICs, Europe, G8, ... now and in the future competing with MINT countries too ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINT_countries ). [...] "We have not got forever to reconstruct our economy and become a bit more like the European export emperor, Germany."]]>UK Debt Super Cycle zombie corporations banks consumer sovereign crisis private bubble jubilee monetization household public debtoverhang monetisation restructuring austerity current account deficit economic history 2014 fiscal policy monetary Mark Carney davidcameron GeorgeOsborne financial repression New Normal QE ZIRP NIRP hunt for yield deflationary productivity output gap competitiveness knowledge worker skill-biased technological change skill capital skills London White-collar Blue-collar Mobile Creative Creatives value creation Industrial globalisation globalization competitive advantage comparative 21stcentury BRIC MINT Europe free trade Germany exports exporthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ee59158ee045/oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Changing Nature of Middle Class Work2014-05-08T10:47:30+00:00
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-changing-nature-of-middle-class-work.html
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