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Friday, June 27, 2008

Taming the inflation monster

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Inflation is probably the greatest threat facing the consumer daily. This is because the global impact of food and energy will continue to h...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Breaking the vicious cycle

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At the end of the last fiscal year, we officially got to the $1 Trillion national debt mark. This is something that was well within out reac...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Déjà vu

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In recent weeks Jamaica has been seeing significantly increased number of murders. And it seems as if those responsible are getting more bra...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Understanding inflation concerns

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Last year, when oil was close to US$90 per barrel, I indicated that it would go to US$100. In an article I wrote in March, when oil was US$1...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Change is hard but necessary

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“Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die”. These are well known words and were even belted out by Peter Tosh in one of his hi...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

A tale of two approaches

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Over the past two weeks we have all been engrossed in the budget debates and the developments in the Cash Plus saga. As usual the presentati...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

The loss of thought

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While growing up, I have always heard people say that the younger generation does not solve problems as well as the older generation had. Th...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

America’s accounting recession

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Last September I wrote an article entitled “Accounting side of sub prime”, as it was evident from that time that the real problem with the s...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Where will oil go?

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Over the past couple of weeks the media has in large part ignored the most important threat to Jamaica today for a soap opera type event. Th...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Oil: still Jamaica’s main external threat

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On July 29th 2006 my article was titled “Oil: Jamaica’s main external threat”. That situation has not changed, thanks to nothing being done ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Only results matter

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When I was thinking about this article two experiences came to mind that were informative of the way us Jamaicans think. The first was over...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Governance and growth

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The recent Contractor General’s report on the “light bulb scandal” brings to mind the very important issue of governance. Over the past few ...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Understanding global competitiveness

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The IMF recently projected 2008 global growth as 4.1 percent, lower than the 2007 estimated growth of 4.9 percent. Of note though is that Ad...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

The power of prophesy

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Prophesy has always been a central theme of most religions. At the heart of many religions is a messiah type figure, but the supporting cast...
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