Bogus listings on State Employment Sites

Where do you go when you are looking for work in these hard economic times? Craigs List? Your State Unemployment Office? Well I tried both for several months. Both are equaly dissapointing. I won't even get into Craigs List other than to say don't bother unless you want...

EcoEco –Contrasting Economic Worldviews

Here is a well presented, and easy to understand source of information on a philosophy of economics which demonstrates how we can do better if we move away from an economy (neo-classical) based on continual growth to a system known as Steady State Economy. The Center for the...

Bigger isn't better

A return to booming economic growth would put the world back on the path to disaster -- it's time for a radical rethinking.~Bigger isn't Better, By Peter A. Victor.~ " There's nothing like a good crisis to make us rethink old ideas. The Depression of the 1930s led to the...

Pressure grows as Melbourne rockets to 4 million

Since returning to Melbourne seven years ago, I've been amazed at the growth in N.E. Melbourne, very close to the area where our friends and acquaintances perished in the Black Saturday blaze. I thought the growth was due to inner city "yuppies" selling their houses at the...

Slowdown pulls down India's growth to 5.3 percent

The signs of worldwide economic downturns have started showing in world's second fastest growing economy India. India's econmy grew at its lowest rate in almost six years in the third quaeter ending at December. The slowdown has raised questions about projected growth for...

UNHAPPY LAST YEAR

New Years should begin on any day other than 1 January. From the moment the Australians begin their spectacular firework display over Sydney harbour at their midnight, which is hours before everyone else in the world, they generate in other nations a mood of euphoria, of...