| The Housing Market: From Boom To Bust—To Economic Blueprint
Much has been written regarding the state of Americas housing market. Perspectives run from insightful to confusing with little from the perspective of the Black economy. But if anyone is to adequately explain the rollercoaster ride we have all been on, they must consider at least five factors, without taking Black America out of the picture. Once that is done, the meaning of events and a proper response, in pursuit of an enlightened economic self-interest, will become clear. Factor 1: President Clintons 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act. While serving as her chief campaign strategist in 2004, Cynthia McKinney asked me for advice prior to a candidate screening, before an important association of real estate professionals and institutions. Her position on the subject of capital gains (a capital gain is the amount by which the sale price of an asset exceeds its initial purchase price) was an area in which they were especially interested.
[Column] The economics of the FTA
I don't know how they did their survey, but according to an article I once read in a foreign academic journal, 97 percent of economists support free trade theory. The problem is most of the economists I know are opposed to the FTA with the United States; or, to be more precise, are opposed to the agreement in its current form, so I guess they make up the remaining 3 percent who didn't learn their economics right. The FTA is already more than the subject of debate about economics in Korea. It has become a political issue, and everyone is being forced to choose a position. Have you noticed how there is a clear taking of sides in the way the media covered the story of a working man who committed self-immolation in protest? That may be the fate of social science theory, but various economic theories are being degraded and used as tools for justifying political positions.
SPLM’s vision for the future: The need for youth reform agenda
In forging the future, SPLM's vision for the future needs Youth reform agenda, will have to collaborate with attitude change of the elders, but on ideas more pertinent of the historical circumstances that lie ahead than those of the past. * Author is based in the Southern Sudan capital, Juba. He can be reached at ydedut@yahoo.com .
Stepping Beyond Civil Society: Prospects for the Multitudes of ...
The correlation between free market capitalism and the democratic organization of society through civil society institutions and their members is steadily declining. The post 9/11 political order, seen as an accelerated mode of democratically unchecked globalization, is marked by increased militarization and repression of social organizations and democratic rights. Increasingly traditional civil society is relegated to a marginal, merely nominal role in the greater scheme of things. The discussion of civil society, its roles, functions and relevance for social order might be near the final frontier of meaningful advances in a democracy under the spell of globalization. The concept of civil society has become fixated on representative democracy and subservient to established political elites and economic hierarchies.
Dubai shows the way
THE emergence of the corporate city-state, where the art of politics means the generation of wealth and foreign trade, has been a recurrent phenomenon in the history of the world. Nabatean Petra, pre Islamic Hijaz, Rembrandt's Amsterdam, the Venice of the Doges, Prince Rainer's Monaco, the Grand Duchy of Liechtenstein and, above all, Lee Yuan Kew's Singapore were all places that changed the world by embracing the values and politics of money. Dubai is no different. Not blessed with the geological lottery of black gold reserves that enriched Saudi Arabia and Kuwait or even pre-oil Abu Dhabi's fertile Liwa or Al Ain oases, the picturesque natural beauty of Oman and Lebanon, the population and military power of Syria and Egypt, Dubai still managed to storm the global village as the leading Arab hub for tourism, finance, trade and services, the quintessential corporate state of the new millennium.
The official book of the 32nd America's Cup
Valencia, 4th April 2007 - The official book for the event- "32nd America's Cup" was presented today in Port America's Cup. A wonderful collection of photographs in 216 pages printed in large format (27x35 cm) and with texts in 5 languages (Spanish, English, French, Italian and German) reflecting all the beauty, technology, emotion and the univ ersal character of the oldest sporting trophy in the world. The work is the result of a year and a half of work compilation and selection from thousands of images taken over three years of America's Cup action taken by seven of the best photographers in the world. Carlo Borlenghi, one of the primary photographers whose work is featured, says this America's Cup has been a unique experience for him. "I have discovered a new way of looking at racing.
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