Money Talk

Japan is such a worry for the world currently as much for its own leaders. Radiation leaks into air, water and materials can find its way into almost everything from grains, vegetables, animals, meat, milk, sea food, fruits and finally into human beings over time indirectly and without warning as people may be taking in smaller quantities over time, what could prove to be highly risky or even fatal. Hypothetical as that may sound, there is nothing hypothetical about the thousands of lives lost and thousands more missing due to the direct impact of this month's tsunami.  The economic loss has been pegged at a whopping $300 billion! The US, which has twice or more of the GDP of Japan is still unable to square its deficits or debt obligations. And the US after having injected several rounds of stimulus funds borrowed from China and Japan among others still finds no light at the end of this long debt tunnel. One of the biggest of all stimuluses was the c...

Yes, the end is near, (not for the world), but for the tailspin of economic worries. How near? About 2-3 years or so, I would think. Why do I think the end is near you may ask. This is why. We got crushed with the excesses of unregulated free money (banks were the culprit) and its aftermath, now earthquakes and imminent fallout of nuclear catastrophe. Out of all destruction come good lessons and people learn prudence. When we get intensely punished for a protracted period of time (to me that is anything about or more than 5 years) we learn it the hard way to be prudent and innovative. The cause for this present metaphorically lousy climate for many people in the developed world is two fold. Natural calamity and man-made disasters. Right now the social unrest in the middle east coupled with natural disasters of earthquake and tsunami in Japan makes it a perfect storm of sorts. We are going to discover our roots and values. We will soon start living in reality a...

There is a lot of vulnerability in the markets now especially after the recent bull run of the Dow Jones index. The head winds are metaphorically and literally of 'tsunami proportions'. There are many unknowns and many analysts are still only beginning to factor in the serious impacts of not only the actual tsunami in Japan but the after effects that may be even more chronic and severe from the fall outs of the nuclear plant effects. I see a big role for policy makers of the environment protection and preservation in the next 10-20 years. If they don't do a good job, we are all going to face increasing threats to our ways of life. Count the environment cost!