Winning in the Global Economy – Will You be a Victim or Victor?
Part II – American Dream or American Myth?
If you’re still playing by the “How to Achieve the American Dream” rules of your father and grandfather, then:
1. You’ve been downsized out of one or more jobs.
2. You company merged with corporation ABC and you’ve been rightsized out of a job to reap the “synergies” of the merger.
3. You’ve trained your replacement in Bangalore prior to your job being outsourced.
Tags: american myth, private sector workers, retail clerksWorld Economy 2009
I have been reading, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009. It is a joint product of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the five United Nations regional commissions. It is an assessment of the global economy for 2009. I consider this report in the context of the evolution of human civilization that I have been studying for many years.
The report seems to be saying that the financial infrastructure set up at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, including the IMF and the World Bank, is essentially bankrupt beyond repair, and that we are working on developing a new alternative international banking system. The United Nations is developing a multi-polar economy, that includes all nations and several currencies, instead of the US$ based economy set up at the end of WWII.
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