Saturday, 14 August 2010

Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - World Economic Forum or World Hypocrites Forum!

This is the best way to make a formal World Economic Forum to define. From this perspective, it is a global forum, is it hard to understand. Can we b nfl jerseys e as a world forum, if and only if the world is not only the United States and Europe. And it is not World Economic Forum (WEF) is not a global forum.

So what? Well, for starters, is the World Economic Forum, a private entity and not a substance that is necessarily represented by all nations. Initiated by Professor Klaus Schwab, M. (who was well known that the anti-globalization protesters to terrorists to assimilate), was the World Economic Forum a forum where companies are encouraged on the basis of their annual income. No wonder if this is the criterion, then one can expect that each company bring in the less developed economies an opportunity to express their views and problems and forget to think, that have an important solution for change.

world, one wonders how does the coming together of the perpetrators themselves solve the problems of AIDS in Asia and Africa, sectarian violence in Iraq and Pakistan, ethnic violence in Sri Lanka, and ripples created by the onslaught of globalisation. Well, one could have still been hopeful of some concrete ideas coming out of it had some prominent organisations, research institutions, think tanks and economists been part of it. But certainly, you don’t expect much when the CEOs of aerated drinks, beverages and chocolate companies come together for a rendezvous. Add to this the millions of dollars wasted on this useless annual event for the so called ‘fool proof’ security from not just terrorists, but also the people who come their to voice concerns through protests and resentments. It is not only that the voices of resentment are gagged, but considering them as threat, a curfew like situation is created to keep the protesters at arms length; while the men who have congregated there, at their hypocritical best, pretend to talk about these very people and their plight.

To gauge the scope and depth of the hypocrisy, let’s have a look at one of the theme issues of the forum this year. It’s been named ‘the shifting power equation’, which essentially is all about the emergence of India and China. To realise this ‘global secret’, the organisers have spent millions of dollars, in one of most expensive locales of the world, with a war-time like security arrangements (Frankly, it’s quite clear that neither India nor China was waiting for the WEF endorsement; the ascent of these countries is not because of WEF, but because of the sheer perseverance, dedication, determination and sacrifice of their millions of middle class employees and entrepreneurs). It was also interesting to note that they did feel it pertinent to discuss about the burning Middle East. But even when the entire world knows how the idiosyncrasies of one dim-witted individual destroyed and disintegrated one entire country forever, no one in WEF found i nfl jerseys t significant enough to take up this issue or to, even for the sake of lip-service, conclude with a solemn pledge that such a thing should not be repeated again anywhere in the world. Understandably though, as the entire conclave is at the mercy of the American multinationals – and their sponsor money – along with American senators, who form the bulk of the heavyweights representing the forum. Trade, globalisation, aid, petro-politics, climate change, were among the other ‘prominent pertinent’ issues that were discussed at the forum with the usual barrage of hollow rhetoric.

What more, the mother of all hypocrisy, the home page of the World Economic Forum states – The World Economic Forum is a ‘truly independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas’. The fact is, even if they would have pledged just half of the forum’s income (which runs into millions of dollars) to a miniscule proportion of the billion plus people who don’t have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, it would have made the existence of the forum more meaningful. In fact, to live up to their deeds (defying Shakespeare), the forum should immediately re-christen themselves as World Hypocrites Forum, as there is a lot in a name!!!




What is an Economic Recession?
Nobody wants to face a recession. It is because people fear of losing their jobs, stock market crashes, people go bankruptcy and so much more can happen. However, this is something nobody can avoid it and must learn how to face it. So what actually is considering as an economic recession?

In most country, it is normally defined as a technical recession when there are 2 consecutive of negative growth in terms of their GDP. Such situation will causes a lot of panic as the entire economy slows down. There are always sign of such event before it even gets started. Consumers spending will drops, employment rate in the country decline and industrial manufacturing production drop and there will be more volatility in the stock market.

Historically, an economic recession will normally last for a period of about 1 to 2 years as cited by a lot of expert.

Why Can't the Government Stop Recession?

Recession period causes a lot of stress to the people and most people will the finger to the government. However, it is important to know that recession is deflationary in nature and if the government tries to rescue the economy, they would have to pump in a lot of money to improve liquidity. Such move will cause an after effect of increase inflation which will possibly lead to stagflation. That is why most government is always very cautious in this move whether to increase liquidity to the economy and reduce increase rate.

How Economic Recession Normally Get Started?

It is a fact that the rich will always get riches while the poor gets poorer. When the rich sees an opportunity, they will know how to speculate the market as though it is a great way to make money. After a while, the rest of the population will follows and started to make some quick money. The combination effect of all the poor and middle income people make the entire market so huge and nobody will ever think of supply and demand. Economic bubbles will soon explode and it will be fierce and fast. However, the rich would be smart enough to exit way before such bubbles occur. So it is the majority of the population who will suffer and the governments are force to step in to clean up the mess.

Phases Of An Economic Recession

There are always few phases an economic recession has to go through, that is the period of slowdown, recession, recovery and than expansion again. Usually the period of recovery and expansion will last much longer than the period of slowdown and recession. Most people like to chase after money during the period of expansion, when the market is very hot and this is a sure loose strategy. Most people will never learn that they should position their investing during recession period where everything is at their cheapest.

How to Rescue a Recession

Lowering interest rates is the most common measures the government will take to help stimulate the economy. As mention earlier, the government will be very cautious in such move as this will cause inflation which will further dampen the spending from the consumer. It will normally implement over a period of times when situation forces them to do so. There are however times when the bubbles are so big that such recession lasted for a prolong period of times like the one happens on thirties. This will make the whole economies to go into depression which is the worst things that can happen.

Conclusion

So, please bear in mind that making money from the stock market is very possible but do not just chase after the market. You need to study the situation very carefully and the strategy of buying low selling high will always work. You need to have a long term vision and do not speculate. If you know the cycle of accumulating your cash during good times, start buying in during recession, hold and sell at good times and accumulating cash again ...etc You will soon be the next wealthy man like those gurus. Remember, we will only face such cycles a few times over our lifetime and you must take opportunities of it.

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