Since this is my blog, I’ll start with minor personal updates. Trip to Mazatlan was great, just what I needed. Few days of warm weather made for a nice change from our prolonged winter. And, really, it was just warm, not hot. Temperatures no higher than low 80′s, very enjoyable. I don’t even look like a [...]

Most of the time I get one or two emails after my updates here. Sometimes there’s none. Few posts, however, generate interest and I receive a fair number of questions regarding them. Such was the case with Call for a new global currency. Readers were interested of how this would work, what possibly could replace the dollar. Mainstream [...]

Current financial crisis is often blamed on globalization, as a root of all evil. Good jobs are exported, or outsourced, to countries where labor is much cheaper. Some in the West, countries which lost most jobs, see it as exploitation of local population in countries like China and India. Inhabitants of those countries largely disagree [...]