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COMMENT, Melbourne — The Rudd Government today announced $6 billion in life support for the local Australian car manufacturing industry. Manufacturing skills, infrastructure & cars are important. Rudd’s $6 Billion on the Amex. The Rudd plan is broadly positive, however it has a large cost. $6 billion to be precise. One of the problems with Government intervention in the economy is that Governments see costs, and not opportunities. Costs not revenue increase. It’s > more 
COMMENT, New Zealand –A Gen-Xer, John Key, self-made man, has got the top job as leader of New Zealand. Read more from Tony Wright in The Age. Trends in Generational Renewal. It started in Australia. With an almost Gen-X Kevin Rudd, and a decidedly Gen-X Julia Gillard, as deputy. One year later, it was Obama, in the USA, another Gen-Xer. And significantly self-made. Not another white man, son-of-privilege type. Now came New Zealand, > more
COMMENT, Melbourne — It seems politicians at the State Level in Australia are determined to destroy local manufacturing. Consistently the Victorian Government in Melbourne, & NSW Government in Sydney import trains & trams rolling stock. According to The Age, $3.6 Billion dollars of import orders in the last 18 months. For citizens. The imported trains & trams often have problem working in different climates, on different rails, and with different power > more
COMMENT, Australia — Nascent trends show that the National (or Country) Party are just about to turn a corner. Recently the National Party were kingmakers in West Australia State elections. Now it looks like the National Party may win in the New Zealand elections. Barnaby’s Voice. An independent thinker, one of the few who stood up to John Howard, Barnaby Joyce has the leadership & > more
ANALYSIS, USA — It’s all over! Obama has won the US Presidency with a probable popular vote of up to 5%. Political Winds. Economic Trends. The key significance of Obama, is a little-noticed trend. Economic local-ism. Grass-roots. Ground-up. In Talbott’s book, Obamanomics, he refers to Obama’s ideas “bottom-up economics”. Read it: Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics Economics is trend # 1. Economics has changed. With the surge of China, Economic Crisis & under-reported > more
Voting machines are unreliable across the United States. How can that be in a major democracy? > more
ANALYSIS, USA — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proven to be a visionary leader of California. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, married to a Kennedy Democrat, will become the nations most senior Republican, as the party moves back to the centre. There’s an interesting video of Governor Schwarzenegger’s idea for a “Bipartisan Commission Will Address Chronic Budget Problems”. Read the release here. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params > more
ANALYSIS – According to the Polls, Obama should win the US election only a couple of days away. We hope this time the result is not tangled up in electoral court-cases or misanthropic journalism, as was the case in Gore v Bush. We’ll look now at how trends support Obama. Trends Support Obama. Australia’s Centre Left. The fortune of leaders are often tied to the same trends in English-speaking countries. Reagan-Thatcher. Clinton-Blair. Bush-Howard. Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd represents generational > more
SLIDES, USA — This slideshow that makes a pithy 7-slide case for Obama. And if you haven’t tried out SlideShare, click thru & try it out. SlideShare is great for communicating. Trends. Trends support change, and a return to a US presidency where the president knows how to do his job. Whether Obama or McCain, both are fundamentally competent politicians. Paul Daley, sets out the case for change (return to normalcy, decency & competence) in more 
COMMENT –Jared Diamond’s work, Guns Germs and Steel is a pivotal work in the understanding of past phase change within societies. Jared is unique in his cross-disciplinary approach combining many fields — biology, anthropology, history, medicine and others. I haven’t finished Collapse yet but in this talk from TED, Diamond outlines the key principles of societal collapse. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes > more
[youtube]vo6fgZ-dbOw[/youtube] VIDEOS, Australia — Yes, Australia has long coveted New Zealand. And now we uncover the secret plan to invade. Thank Agency 303 for the innovative treatment. It’s from the TV show on ABC, The Gruen Transfer. Made by Andrew Denton’s Zapruder’s Other Films, the show with acerbic Wil Anderson questioned advertising. Ad > more 
ANALYSIS, USA — According to The Age newspaper online: “The economy suffered its biggest decline since 2001 in the third quarter, ushering in what may be the worst recession in a quarter-century … Gross domestic product contracted at a 0.3% pace from July to September, according to a Commerce Department report. “The crisis really kicked up in late September,” Ethan Harris, co-head of US economic research at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “We’re > more 
COMMENT, Australia — A German doctor & his family have been refused a visa for his family to stay in Australia, because his son has Downs Syndrome. Dr Bernhard Moeller was on Channel 9′s Today show with his family. There is an ABC version of the Doctor’s story here and The > more
COMMENT, Melbourne — John Brumby’s Victorian government has tabled over 200 reports in one day according to The Age. > Avalanche of reports ‘a joke’ The back-story is that Brumby complained about Kennett’s lack of transparency. And now he ‘one-ups’ Kennett. Something to Hide? Sure. Grand Prix losses. Failed environmental targets. Massive Treasury losses. And bear in > more |
      
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Bottom-Up Economics, from front of SlideShare
COMMENT, USA –Few people understand how the economic paradigm has shifted.
2thinknow do.
We predicted it would shift, and that their would be an economic crisis. Correctly. Back in October 2007, before others.
If you would like to see what it all means, including Obama’s election, see these slides on slideshare.
Opportunity for Local Innovation.
There are a lot of economic opportunities out there, but bright minds need opportunity.
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