Posts Tagged ‘Economy’

03.17
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The Fed will meet on 24 and 25 March, but will decide what?

by admin ·

The Federal Reserve looks set to keep its monetary policy unchanged, even with high oil prices and unable to do anything, at least for the moment, against the growing uncertainty following the devastating disaster that struck Japan. The disaster, in fact, hit the third largest economy in the world, could have significant ripple effects on the global recovery. But the impact is still unclear, economists say that the best thing that Fed officials can do right now is to do nothing.

Even before the tragedy, the central bankers of the United States was facing a lot of mixed signals. First, higher energy costs seem to push the expectations of U.S. inflation higher. It ‘s a very complicated situation, because to say that inflation is rising is to take a significant step in a dangerous direction. At the same time, failing to recognize the recent changes seen in the market and among surveys of consumers, could make that idea the Fed is out of the world, eroding its credentials in the fight against inflation.
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03.16
11

The Japanese economy after the earthquake

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It is time to once again analyze the situation prevailing in Japan. Everything turned out much worse than expected. There was still leaking radiation from nuclear power plants, “Fukushima-1″ I’m not nuclear scientists, to assess in advance the damage already caused to environment in Japan, perhaps the nearest countries, through the release of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, but we can already say that that Japanese business has suffered greatly and will suffer even more. If the whole catastrophe has been reduced to what would have happened after the earthquake tsunami, but it would not be damaged nuclear plant is unlikely to significantly hurt the economy.
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12.5
10

U.S., given the work disappoints

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U.S. economy added a given worse than expected for jobs in November, registering 39,000 more jobs, against expectations of 150,000 new jobs lavoro.Il unemployment rate has risen, highlighting the weakness of a recovery in the labor market against whom you are fighting. The increase in payrolls was in fact much weaker than was expected by Wall Street analysts. As mentioned, the unemployment rate rose from 9.6 to 9.8 percent. November marked the nineteenth consecutive month in which the unemployment rate has remained above 9 percent.
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06.15
10

Planting and dollars are falling over

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pantingPrices of wheat, corn and soybeans fell this week on the Chicago futures market . While the renewed strength of the dollar has contributed to obtain such a trend, but not only.

The rapid advance of planting in the United States has apparently it was successful with investors to thwart as much as possible the upward effect of strong demand from China.
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06.15
10

Iran denied on a currency conversion of euros into dollars and gold

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iranian-currencyWhile Wednesday, the Iranian television channel Press TV has announced that the Central Bank of Iran would convert a significant portion of its foreign reserves in dollars and gold, and in reaction to the fall of the euro, the Pool business daily reported Sunday that the BCI had denied the reports.
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06.13
10

The culture of effort

by benjamin ·

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In all types of gatherings we see every day a general outcry that coincide in stating the loss of the culture of effort as one of the main problems to be solved to improve our prospects for social development. It is argued in this case with full reason, there has been a certain decline in the motivation of individuals to perform tasks that only be rewarded after a long period of time. Understanding why this effect occurs in today’s society we will make appropriate proposals to begin to reverse the situation:
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06.9
10

Major business and financial groups during the dictatorship

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vicen_navarroThis article shows an example of the complicity of dictatorship (and the conservative media) had to large industrial and financial companies that got big profits at the expense of the health and quality of life for their workers. Democracy allowed these abuses to correct something, but the complicity of the state continues to exist, which should be terminated at the major media, which is seldom done.
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06.1
10

Conference on Psychoanalysis,Money and the Economy

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Conference date:1-4 July, 2010

Conference Venue:The Freud Museum, London

Conference country: London, United Kingdom

Conference theme:
A three day conference convened by David Bennett (University of Melbourne) and Ivan Ward (Freud Museum)
supported by Birkbeck College and the Australian Research Council

This conference, and the volume of essays that will result from it, aims to explore all aspects of the nexus between psychoanalysis, money and the economy.

About organizer:
The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud’s study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.

It contains Freud’s remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost 2,000 items fill cabinets and are ranged on every surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the desk where Freud wrote until the early hours of the morning. The walls are lined with shelves containing Freud’s large library.

Activities:

  • Global financial crisis and the psychology of money

  • Analysand and Analyst in the Global Economy
  • Pharmacology of capital in the age of psychopower
  • Anxiety and Melancholy in Times of Economic Crisis
  • At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Political Economy
  • From financial sadism to relational economics
  • Speculation

Keynote speaker:

  • Andrew Samuels
    University of Essex

  • Claire Colebrook
    Penn State University

  • Jean-Joseph Goux
    Rice University, Texas

  • Bruce Fink
    Duquesne University

  • Bernard Stiegler
    Pompidou Centre, Paris

  • Dr. Gillian Tett
    Assistant Editor, Financial Times

  • Dr. Oliver James
    Psychologist, author of Affluenza and Britain on the Couch

  • Prof. Susie Orbach
    Psychotherapist, author of Towards Emotional Literacy, The Impossibility of Sex, On Eating and Bodies

Contact:
info@freud.org.uk

Conference website:
http://www.freud.org.uk/

05.27
10

Fiscal Harmonisation: A necessary first step

by Morales-Aguilera ·

Tax harmonization is one of many steps necessary to begin developing a new global society.

Today we see the great masses of nomads speculative capital to its knees are putting the states themselves. The margin of political action by governments is diminishing more because they always hanging over them the threat of relocation of large firms or the “punishment of the market” when they intend to implement social protection measures that are not palatable to the holders of capital. This must be stopped. It is neither more nor less than a struggle between large landowners and the fragile democracy worldwide, thanks to the continuous market of securities and commodities, but especially to the existence of countries with low or no taxation. Unfortunately citizen democracy is clearly losing this game, in recent years.
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05.25
10

Economy: Version Juan Pueblo

by Closson ·

Every time we have had the opportunity to address issues related to economic activity, our primary concern has been to highlight the human face that encourages, enables, affecting above all, that suffers, the impact that the fate of the economy, in its metamorphosis from macro to micro, decanted and influences the purchasing power of those who live and interact in the flat base of the social pyramid.

This time, telling a story whose protagonists have been drawn from everyday life, flesh and blood characters, as you and I, dear reader, with the exception that we preferred to preserve their identity, using the famous phrase of feature films “The characters in this story are fictitious, any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.”
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