My Mission Statement

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I am a graduate student studying the global economy, international business and how the influence of multinational corporations shape the fiscal and political policies of governments world wide. I believe the real news is to be found splayed in the business/financial sections of newspapers and on the news and financial websites. The financial world has a very specific and deliberate language that is constantly and purposefuly changing to create an opacity that is little understood among the masses in order to de-incentivize scrutiny. I believe however, that with a closer analysis, defining terms and using analogies that resemble how we experience economics we can get at a clearer more accurate account of the events occurring in our world today.

Economics is the life blood of what keeps daily life in motion and provides a seeming normalcy and continuity--a substructure that when all is well is barely noticed or felt. But once there are disruptions in the economic and monetary pipelines on a micro or macro level, such as bank credit freezes and the burst of the housing bubble through subprime lending in 2008, these events can cause catastrophic reverberations leading to devastating collapses in very short periods of time often effecting millions of people at once. We owe it to ourselves and our progeny to understand how the system works and how it changes.

I have created this blog in order to research trends, explore decisions made in fiscal policies both foreign and domestic, to observe and analyze geo-political events as it relates to global economics and more humbly, I am doing this to learn and put the pieces together for myself. I am studying to reach a certain level of expertise and proficiency in this field, but acknowledge that I will forever be a student as I take this journey. These are desperate times growing ever more chaotic....let's learn together and with any luck help change the world towards a greater economic equilibrium.