By Jim Selman | Bio
I have had several conversations with friends
in Buenos Aires about how people deal with their financial security in
their older years. To my surprise, the uniform answer is that they
mostly don’t. Then I hear a story which, by my naïve North American
standards is shocking, but whhich reveals something important for all
of us as we contemplate our own future and worry about the
uncertainties in the financial markets. The story goes like this.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Retirement
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
As an elder, what do I have to say regarding the ‘crisis’ in the
financial system? To begin, I don’t know what to say about the crisis.
But I do know that this is not a time for ‘idle’ opinions or mouthing
platitudes and ideological dogma. I know the seemingly ‘sudden’
emergence of this situation is mostly the fact that the media and
government pays attention only after something happens and doesn’t
bother to listen to thoughtful commentary before the fact—perhaps
because so much of their business is about who to blame. A few things are clear...[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
This brings us to the third element of the
big picture of the human confrontation with the limits of our Mother
Earth: the governing institutions to which we give the power to set our
priorities and our collective course. We might wonder how such
injustice could happen in a world governed by democratically elected
governments. The answer is simple and alarming.[ Read More]
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