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Radical Changes Are In Store For The World And Global Markets, Are You Ready?

UN chief urges radical changes at world body

PERSPECTIVAS-O salto quântico (II) - 28.11.2016 - HojeMacau

 “It was 250,000 years before the world’s population reached 1 billion, around 1800. But it took only a dozen years for mankind to add its latest billion, passing 7 billion in October 2011, by the United Nations’ official count. This is megachange: change on a grand scale, happening at remarkable speed. It is all around us. Technology is spreading astonishingly fast – think of the internet, mobile phones and the oceans of information now captured on computers or transmitted via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The global economy is tilting towards Asia in front of our eyes. All this is having a deep impact on people’s lives, businesses’ strategies, countries’ politics and the planet’s prospects”.

 Megachange: The World in 2050

D. Franklin and John Andrews

 A excepcional evolução, também, pode ter lugar periodicamente na política. Os terramotos políticos não são tão raros, como ficou demonstrado pela vitória considerada improvável de Donald Trump, em 8 de Novembro de 2016. A média terminou na área da economia, após 2008, devido à grande recessão, e é de acreditar que será difícil criar um crescimento económico robusto e sustentado como defende Tyler Cowen no seu livro “Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation”.

There are lots of hermit crabs in the tide pools near my summer house.

They’re interesting little creatures.

A hermit crab will find a shell that fits him, put it on, and live in it.

After a while, he grows and the shell no longer fits, so the crab scurries along the sea floor and finds another shell to live in.

He crawls out of his first shell and into the shell that fits his new needs.

This scene repeats itself again and again throughout his life.

Learn a lesson from the hermit crabs.

The Fabric of the Cosmos

PERSPECTIVAS - O salto quântico (I) - HojeMacau -21.11.2016

“A great shift towards the East is taking place. This really is a case of back to the future: as Laza Kekic points out, by 2050 Asia will account for more than half the world economy, which is what its share was back in 1820 and for centuries before that. This will profoundly affect everything from the environment to the balance of military power and the centre of gravity of the global economy.”

Megachange: The World in 2050

D. Franklin and John Andrews 

O início do dia das eleições nos Estados Unidos, foi marcado por dez baralhados inquéritos nacionais, em que oito davam a vitória a Hillary Clinton, um anunciava um empate e o último apostava na vitória de Donald Trump. No final da longa vigília, os embaraçados comentadores interrogavam-se de quem seriam os Secretários de Estado do candidato vencedor, quais seriam as grandes linhas de acção da sua futura gestão à frente dos destinos do país, de como seria a sua ligação com ambas as câmaras, após ter dado a vitória no Senado ao Partido Republicano, e como seria a sua relação dentro do mesmo partido, com a actual liderança que lhe virou as costas.

Alan Wake - The Signal Episode 2: Stop Trapping Yourself!

It’s easy to paint ourselves into a corner with what we’ve grown accustomed to expecting from ourselves.

Sometimes we can work so hard to build that career, get that relationship, or become a certain way that we start living up to an image of ourselves that has become outdated.

Stop trapping yourself.

Those goals might have been what we wanted then, but they don’t work anymore. And just because we achieved them doesn’t mean we can’t go on and do something else.

What do you expect from yourself?