The last two empires died with Brezhnev and Bush, the two clotheless / powerless / brainless emperors. Welcome to globalism and multilateralism! The only...
The near bankrupcy of the US dollar, a currency in which the world is losing trust, after two decades of mismanagement for political reasons (the independance ...
I agree.I'm hoping that by 2009,the next President of the United States abandon unilateralism,for a multilateralist foreign policy that will help reform...
I'm not sure nation-states can do anything in front of the present global economic turmoils Global institutions seems more and more needed. To start with; in...
I think it would be a good thing if international trade agreements were linked with international monetary policy. In the aggregate, trade balances and...
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund should be integrated into a new United Nations Global Treasury.This new organization will regulate the flow...
I think it will start with federal institutions devoted each one to a specific field: for example on maritime issue, a terrirory that cannot be managed by...
Peter, Good response. Yes the Law of the Sea is a good starting point. I would like to see nations and/or regions maintain individual characteristics in terms...
Hello, I am afraid that a unitary state at the Earth level would be a frigtening lack of competing and balanced power sources. If tiny Switzerland and Belgium...
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Thanks for the link, Ken Your observations are right. Power sharing and federalism are the key for balanced sovereignty. It will be a long process. Peter ... ...
Hi! That quasi "systemic" crisis shows at least one thing: we do not have a world institution, independent from nations, able to anticipate such crises and put...
Peter, Some good points here about warnings. I would not think, however, that "some power to intervene" would be a good thing. Where would it stop? What...
Hi Peter! I must agree with you. In a global financial system, there is a real risk of "regulatory arbitrage", or financial institutions and transnational...
JKS, Well said. And, IMHO, the financial crisis was (in part) started years ago by following a socialist and politically correct impulse: "ensuring" that...
Hello, T; Yes, I've read of the US goal of wide home ownership. I expect that part of the motivation was to avoid a depression after WW2 and stimulate the...
You are right Jan, to get reliable info is necessary to make wise people wiser, but not sufficient to make fools wiser ;-) Anyway, globalization without global...
Jan, Thanks for the reply. As the Buddhists say, all evil is the result of desire. Without the strong desire to own homes, nothing gets started. I remember ...
That's what has been bothering me, actually. I grew up believing that limited government was best. I still think that being suspicious of "big government" is a...
Hi Tony, I wonder if the "American Dream" of home ownership may have had very significant benefits of encouraging social and political stability and economic...
Jan, We are on the same wavelength here. Or, more accurately, my wife brought up both of your points as we have been discussing this over many months. Yes...
Ojh, I'm sorry, Tony, I completely mised your reply last week in my email! I'll respond ASAP. Jan ... willing ... scheme. ... risks ... rated. ... stability ...
Hi Tony, Yes, I do wonder how much the distortion caused by 2 generations of home ownership subsidy was balanced by positive externalities and whether it can...
Hi, all members! Best personal wishes for you all in 2009! I could add best wishes for the World, But in it present state, that could appear as ...wishful...
The illusion persists that every country can by itself protect itself from the world economic crisis and boost its own economy. Maybe some specific problem...
I think you are probably right about the UN, WTO, and IMF. On the other hand, even if there were policies or proposals I wonder if the media would promote...
The situation is not understood because it is not properly explained and steered toward accepting a form of globalization bypassing nation states..Nation...
I think the illusion persists for a few reasons. One reason is that the current realities of the late 20th-21st centuries are ahead of the world views of most...
Hello! Knol, which was launched by Google is "the other" online cooperative encyclopedia, maybe less academic but more open to free expression and original...
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