Monday, January 09, 2012
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Friday, October 14, 2011
Dejavu: PORTUGAL anuncia medidas de austeridad (acho que ja' ouvi isto muitas vezes antes...)
Cualquier deudor cuyo estaus fuera inferior al de su acreedor era convertido en esclavo.
Contrario a la creencia popular, sin embargo, Draco no fue el creador de esas leyes.
Labels: International, News
Friday, March 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Cairo February 2011 - "You don´t need a weather man to see where the wind blows?"
Labels: International, News, Visions of Humanity
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Visions of Humanity: North Africa in a shake
Labels: International, News, Visions of Humanity
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Persepolis

Just finished to read a great Comic Book: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
Its book (cartoon) writen by a iranian woman that lived half of her life in Iran and in Europe.
She loves her culture and country, but like all of us, there are things that we like and we don´t like so much.
Its magnificently written and the Cartoons are super (she´s from Arts) and you can have a diferent picture and opinion on Iran´s history, visions, life, culture etc.
Labels: Arts and Krafts, International, Visions of Humanity
Monday, April 19, 2010
Cinza no ar
Labels: International, News
Monday, December 22, 2008
Never say Never
And, somewhere along the way, the body became the new attire, a mutable status symbol subject to trends in proportion, silhouette, technology and disposable income.But now, as the country plunges into recession, will financial hardship demote the pursuit of physical perfection?

Labels: International, Visions of Humanity
Friday, December 19, 2008
A Financial World gonne Mad(off)
Now, as we survey the wreckage and try to understand how things can have gone so wrong, so fast, the answer is actually quite simple: What we're looking at now are the consequences of a world gone Madoff.
Labels: International
Friday, December 05, 2008
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
China XXI - "Direito" de Propriedade Agricola?
El suelo seguirá siendo propiedad del Estado o de la colectividad rural.
750 millones de personas, el 56,1% de la población, viven en el campo.
Labels: International
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Cost take out & Margin optimization - 24h control
No mundo empresarial os tempos que correm sao de um misto de panico e negatividade.
Toda a gente prepara a sua economia de Guerra.
Os animos aquecem, optimizar e reduzir custos sao as palavras de ordem para os Budgets de 2009.
Quer controlar-se tudo o que se gasta ou custa mais do que nunca nos ultimos anos.
No more Golden Stockexchange era.
A economia de Guerra está no P&L spreadsheet de toda a geografia planetária.
Labels: International, Visions of Humanity
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
It´s (NOT) the end of the world as we know it ?
CERN Launches World's Largest Particle ColliderFiled at 5:23 a.m. ET
GENEVA (AP) -- The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.
On the Net:
CERN: http://www.cern.ch
Labels: International, News
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Bubble - Forget about Economics Rules, it´s the Stock Market my friend, The stock Market!
They're wrong about oil, by George
Rip up your textbooks, the doubling of oil prices has little to do with China's appetite
Excelente e muito interessante artigo no Times online sobre a relaçao/especulaçao dos mercados financeiros e com a subida dos preços dos commodities, entre eles o petroleo:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article3980797.ece
O autor do texto, inspirado no novo livro de George Soros (The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, 2008) onde questiona que as leis fundamentais da economia de equilibrio atraves da oferta e procura nao se aplicam em situaçoes de Boom´s ou Borbulhas Economicas de certos productos/serviços. Toma como exemplo a situaçao de subida galopante do petroleo nos ultimos tempos e a procura do mesmo (que aparentemente nao é assim tao diferente em alta de há uns anos para cá).
Um pequeno excerto...
Now consider the situation today in oil markets: the Gulf, according to Mr Rothman, is crammed with supertankers chartered by oil-producing governments to hold the inventories of oil they are pumping but cannot sell. That physical oil is in excess supply at today's prices does not mean that producers are somehow cheating by storing their oil in tankers or keeping it in the ground. All it suggests is that there are few buyers for physical oil cargoes at today's prices, but there are plenty of buyers for pieces of paper linked to the price of oil next month and next year. This situation is exactly analogous to the bubble in credit markets a year ago, where nobody wanted to buy sub-prime mortgage bonds, but there was plenty of demand for "financial derivatives" that allowed investors to bet on the future value of these bonds.
In short, the standard economic assumption that supply and demand drive prices is only a starting point for understanding financial markets. In boom-bust cycles, the textbook theory is not just slightly inaccurate but totally wrong. This is the main argument made by George Soros in his fascinating book on the credit crunch, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, launched at an LSE lecture last night. In this book Mr Soros explains how financial bubbles always start with some genuine economic transformation - the invention of the internet, the deregulation of credit or the rise of China as a commodity consumer.
Labels: International, Visions of Humanity
Monday, January 21, 2008
Cause you can, you won´t, and you don´t STOP

valores (bolsas) em todo o mundo estao a tremer com as expectativas (thanks Keynes) negras da crise das subprimes nos EUA, e a afundar-se paulatinamente (a velocidade dependendo da praça financeira em questao) por falta de liquidez (nos mercados financeiros quando nao há liquidez as coisas afundam-se mais...)...
É o panico dos tubaroes que se alastra nos peixes pequenos.
Sentes alguma coisa?
Labels: Headmusic, International
Friday, December 21, 2007
China´s economic iron-lung

China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing Factories
By JOSEPH KAHN and MARK LANDLER
In recreating the industrial revolution, China has absorbed the industries that made the West dirty.
Complete Coverage: Choking on Growth »
Mandarin Translation: Text Audio (mp3)
Labels: International
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Macau Handover birthday - 7 years have passed
20 December 1999 - 20 December 2007 = 7 years.
On this day Portuguese administration hand over to Chinese Special Region Administration the governance of the land that was on contract from the beggining chinese land.
Time flyes, and that tinny skyscrapper city even more... 26 casinos in a 22sqm land (some stolen to the pear river).
I´ll visit you again some day...
Labels: International