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Showing posts with label finance summit. Show all posts

Monday, November 17, 2008

Politics: World Finance Summit 2 - OLD WINE in NEW SKINS

© Thomas Ramseyer
Leading Industrialized as well as threshold (emerging) countries (G20) meet at the White House for a closed-door session
Result: So far never seen consensus amongst them: joint force shall cure the Financial Markets. But nobody is prepared to substantially change the financial system. Advised by the Pied Piper of Hamelin's vassals blindfold country leaders take manipulated decisions.

Facts:It is clear-cut that the result has been grown on the soil fertilized by the manure of the so called developed countries' elites: USA, Great Britain, Europe and the sort. Thus the basis for the new financial market order will be lead by countries where the evil behaviour of the last decades originally emerged from. Most of the other attending countries' specialists may be considered mere exotic spectators to be held ignorant at the event's sideline.

Reasoning: On one hand the country-leaders avowed themselves to the actual market principles such as open market and a liberal investment regime. On the other hand they called for more efficient regulation still allowing dynamic (aggressivness?!), innovaton and entrepreneurship.

They even presumed self-criticism and of course criticism.

They consider the last boom to have lead to neglecting risk while thriving for more and more return. (my remark: bonus-driven??) The declared measures to immediately be taken are more stringent regulations to evaluate komplex financial structures/products. Rating agencies shall be supervised more closely as well as compliant behaviour of all market participants. Equity is to be subject to more stringent rules (debt/equity ratio) and regulations. Unfair competition as well as risks implemented by offshore (tax-shelter) companies were also stated. (remark: what is absent Switzerland considered?)

Conclusion:
Somehow all this sounds familiar; we have had it.

To cure the disastrously faltering world economy, governments are aiming at the gradually growing number of the population's infantile ignorants. To repeat it: nothing actually is going to be changed but for the market participants' responsibility for their transactions. They just are to be lulled at sleep by the above mentioned measurements. To cut it short: just band-aid cure; we do not want to get rid of the malignant ulcer.

The real cause - i.e. heavy debt burden of today's and future's not yet born generations - has not been addressed; but it has to be tackled.

Suggestion: The lowering of debt by the abdication of consuming is the one and only remedy to cure the disaster in the long run.

New (old) World Order Rules
1) pay back outstanding individual dept.
2) build up savings.
3) forget the use of credit cards, whenever using cards use only debit cards
4) first save only then consume
5) Don't buy just for fancy; your belongings must yours not the banks'
6) Don't buy adventurous and promising financial structures.
7) Apply simply the old rule since ever "the higher the return the higher the risk"
8) There is no free lunch
9) Do not eat unknown things - Do not eat sushi, grow your own potato
10 Go back to the roots - Otherwise the disaster will repeat over and over again

Only austerity will be the remedy for a sound recovery!

Risk: Human beings are most likely to forget.

copyright Thomas Ramseyer
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Politics: World Finance Summit 1 - Renovation of Financial System

Author Thomas Ramseyer
Closed-door negotiation on Saturday, 15 November 2008. More than two dozens highly ranked politicians to attend at the White House

If the fading Bush Administration makes a last desperate move there will be no satisfying result; in that case the event has to take place in early first quarter of 2009


American News

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White House Correspondent
World leaders prepared Friday to adopt an early warning system for financial calamities, a commitment to tougher accounting rules and other MODEST steps to try to prevent future crises like the one now threatening the livelihoods of billions of people around the globe.
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European News
Referring to the same base according to journalists heads of the state, heads of the government as well as finance ministers are gathering on 15 November 2008 to discuss the REFORMATION of the World Financial System.

American news differ a lot from European articles about the event !!

America
The American news perfectly fits the Bush Administration; i.e. NO CHANGE, CONSERVATIVE, BLUNTLY REPUBLICAN !!
The White House correspondents article actually suggests no major change of today's Financial System. Modest steps and tougher accounting rules are never meant to change the consumers' behaviour. That is just impossible!! They only ameliorate the safety of the some individuals' fortune as well as some firms' - banks and others - assets thus preventing them from deterioration and loss of financial power as well as political power.miraculous early warning system preventing from further calamities is only protecting a small percentage of wealthy firms, organisations and individuals. The above stated protection of billions' of livelihoods of people around the globe are meant to just support the actual financial system.
 
Europe 
Europeans suggest Reformation of World Financial System
The European news suggesting the REFORMATION of the actual World Financial System perfectly fits the future Obama Administration; i.e. CHANGE of and from America, REESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL ORDER.
 
This implies all market participants' behaviour to substantially change.

Europe's politicians to take measures against catastrophies
Europe's heads of state and government want to take measures to prevent the world from catastrophies which it just is going through and will go through for quite some time.
Suggestion
The only way to renew - thus changing the basis to achieve a prospering world - the financial system will be a humble behaviour of all stakeholders of the variant economies. 

Everybody's REALISM is being asked for; the only remedy is the private consumers to forego too much consumption the latter meaning savings.

Diminishing the heavy debt burden from top to toe is a must. Thus a faltering economy in the northern hemisphere has to be accepted.

Countries to build and maintain infrastructure and education
North
Northern governments shall invest in their countries' infrastructure as well as education. Prejudice has to be thrown overboard.  

South
Southern governments have to be persuaded to believe in their own country thus investing in their own infrastructure and education.

Take southern countries' serious
Southern countries' economies as well as governments must be taken very serious. Northern governments are to assist the former in having their citizens become even more educated; the result thereof will be mature countries and economies. The NORTH may not keep ignorant the SOUTH despite the fear of loss of resources investments included.

This scheme may have step in the numerously populated southern hemisphere to re-establish the world economic system as well as preventing hyper and super power countries from protective action, thus causing political instability.
 
copyright Thomas Ramseyer