Needs Evolution

Human needs continue growing together with technologies development and product and services growth.

Healthcare Cost Rises to Almost $2 Trillion

The annual report from the National Health Statistics group was released on Tuesday, and stated the main culprits responsible for the increased healthcare cost include doctor’s fees, prescription drugs, and hospital fees.

Lend Lease Act Was Real Free Trade, Not Chopped Liver, as in Globalist Flat World

Globalist Free Traders ignore the tenets of history and paint history with their own paint brush as Thomas Friedman does in his book The World is Flat. The Lend Lease Act changed the course of history and demonstrated that you can't do business with people who do not have money. Free Trade and Globalization blasts geopolitical balances by chopping up economies. Globalist Free Traders ignore these major events.

Are You in Debt - It's Not Your Fault

Warning: The material you are about to read may startle, shock, and surprise you. This is not for the faint-hearted. Therefore, continue at your own risk.

THE SEZ's: The Fire Continues to Burn

The Indian government has approved proposals for 180 special economic zones (SEZs) with an idea that it would invite foreign direct investment, provide jobs, and promote the development of secondary industries to service firms. If SEZs were so beneficial then why this huge protest in many parts of the country. For one thing, many of the approved sites are located on prime agricultural land – leading to complaints that the SEZs are more of a coordinated land grab by the rich than coordinated economic development.

Is Turkey Economically Ready to Join EU?

Turkey's candidature for the European Union is maybe the most controversial and consequently well-analyzed of any in the history of the organization. The topics of the debate are familiar: human rights abuses, overly uppermost military, and the impact of Islam on the one hand, contrary to strategic partner, valid candidate, and the advantages of including a Muslim democracy on the other. The interaction among these factors will define Turkey's progress toward membership over the next several years.

China and WTO

This essay is aimed to find out what the advantages and disadvantages are for People's Republic of China considering joining the World Trade Organization. The integrative processes going in the society have determined the existence of different international unions; one of the most important of them is the WTO. Sooner or later any country will have to choose whether to take part into international unions or not; China's leaders have decided that it is better to become a member of WTO.

Is the Dollar Doomed to Keep Falling?

Since 2001 the dollar has been in steady decline. From several perspectives the fall in the value of the dollar appears to be following basic economic fundamentals and whilst these imbalance continue the dollar may continue to fall.

An Example of Internal Synergy - the Single Global Currency

There are those project initiatives that will not produce a concrete result but which could be considered anyhow. Especially large corporation cope with these some moment in time. For example in situations where the various units -- in countries all over the world -- use different software programs to support Office Ware, Accounting or other administration functions. In line with this it is interesting to observe a similar initiative: the site ...

Hu is in India but Who am I in China?

This is a short piece about an individual in another country in the light of President Hu's visit to India. Bilateral trade between the two countries is rising and the two nations are fast emerging as economic powerhouses...

Future of Interest Rates in UK

A look into prospect for interest rates in UK following the MPC latest inflation report. Generally inflationary pressure seem lower than expected

Offshoring U.S. Patients No Cure for Ailing Healthcare System

With more and more corporations adding select foreign hospitals as Preferred Providers to their employees' health insurance plans, it remains difficult for patients to get the necessary information needed to make a reasoned decision on whether to have surgery performed, let alone halfway around the world.

The Good Economy

The Presidents tax cuts have cost the US treasury 2001 to 2006 one trillion dollars for 800,000 new jobs, so lets figure a trillion is one thousand times a billion. If we were to give one million dollars tax free at random to 800,000 high school graduates or newly unemployed on the condition they could never ask for government assistance again during their life time the cost would be eighty billion dollars thus we could achieve the same results as the Presidents tax cuts with a savings to the treasury of 920 billion dollars!