Russel Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, and author. This interview is funny and inspiring. Russel says: “People in the first time of a generation are aware of a massive corporate and economic exploitation.” See the interview for more statements. More Russel Brand below. My favorite quote from the video: “The only reality that […]
Consumer debt
Inequality – some recent comments from the pope, Obama & Paul Krugman
First watch this video, a discussion between Paul Krugman (Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, a 2008 Nobel laureate, and an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times) and Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, Then read this very powerful statement of the pope about inequality here. Some for the […]
The Pace of Consumption is Speeding Up
The pace of our consumption is pacing up. We consumer more food and resources in the past ten years then we did ever before. One factor is also that we gained market introduction effeciency – new things or innovation reach more people much quicker. I found to graphs showing this on HBR blog.
Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans’ personal debt
The group has focussed on buying medical debt, and has acquired the $14.7m in three separate purchases, most recently purchasing the value of $13.5m on medical debt owed by 2,693 people across 45 states and Puerto Rico, Rolling Jubilee said in a press release. Read the full story at our friends from The Guardian. Wonderful result for […]
The end of systematic evil?
I love charts and graphs. I am a huge fan of info graphics – and I became fascinated by some lately as they scare the hell out of me. 1) Chart number one: Total US government debt – the chart below ends at 2008 . We reaching the “debt ceiling” 17th of October 2013: nearly […]