Economics

[Eddo211]

Re: Economics

The sanctions by the west have substantially increased the importance of Armenia to Russia and this is a situation Armenia can use for its benefit.

I like your positive attitude......one thing Armenia must never do is to not take advantage of situations when it presents itself in politics and in defense strategy, just like now in both cases.

btw Haykakan you may have to divide your 17 page letter in several posts....or link it if you have one.

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

It is becoming clear that the Eurasian Union was conceived in anticipation of the events happening today (ie Ukraine). This action suggests a great deal of foresight and constructive planning by Russia for the future rarely found in USA. It is also becoming apparent that there will not be a resumption of the war in Kharabagh. The blockade on Russia imposed by the West should produce more gains then losses for Armenia which will see a substantial increase in demand for things like fruits, veggies, alcohol. minerals and other products. The sanctions by the west have substantially increased the importance of Armenia to Russia and this is a situation Armenia can use for its benefit.

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

I just finished writing a paper on Goldman Sachs and vulture funds. How can i post a 17 page paper here without using a bunch of reply boxes?

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

RUSSIA ANNOUNCES DECOUPLING TRADE FROM DOLLAR

China will re-open the old Silk Road as a new trading route linking
Germany, Russia and China

By Peter Koenig

April 08, 2014 "ICH" - Russia has just dropped another bombshell,
announcing not only the de-coupling of its trade from the dollar,
but also that its hydrocarbon trade will in the future be carried out
in rubles and local currencies of its trading partners â?" no longer
in dollars â?" see Voice of Russia

Russia's trade in hydrocarbons amounts to about a trillion dollars
per year. Other countries, especially the BRICS and BRCIS-associates
(BRICSA) may soon follow suit and join forces with Russia, abandoning
the 'petro-dollar' as trading unit for oil and gas. This could amount
to tens of trillions in loss for demand of petro-dollars per year
(US GDP about 17 trillion dollars â?" December 2013) â?" leaving an
important dent in the US economy would be an understatement.

Added to this is the declaration today by Russia's Press TV â?" China
will re-open the old Silk Road as a new trading route linking Germany,
Russia and China, allowing to connect and develop new markets along
the road, especially in Central Asia, where this new project will bring
economic and political stability, and in Western China provinces,where
"New Areas" of development will be created. The first one will be
the Lanzhou New Area in China's Northwestern Gansu Province, one of
China's poorest regions.

"During his visit to Duisburg, Chinese President Xi Jinping made
a master stroke of economic diplomacy that runs directly counter
to the Washington neo-conservative faction's effort to bring a new
confrontation between NATO and Russia." (press TV, April 6, 2014)

"Using the role of Duisburg as the world's largest inland harbor,
an historic transportation hub of Europe and of Germany's Ruhr steel
industry center, he proposed that Germany and China cooperate on
building a new "economic Silk Road" linking China and Europe. The
implications for economic growth across Eurasia are staggering."

Curiously, western media have so far been oblivious to both events. It
seems like a desire to extending the falsehood of our western illusion
and arrogance â?" as long as the silence will bear.

Germany, the economic driver of Europe â?" the world's fourth largest
economy (US$ 3.6 trillion GDP) â?" on the western end of the new
trading axis, will be like a giant magnet, attracting other European
trading partners of Germany's to the New Silk Road. What looks like
a future gain for Russia and China, also bringing about security and
stability, would be a lethal loss for Washington.

In addition, the BRICS are preparing to launch a new currency â?"
composed by a basket of their local currencies â?" to be used
for international trading, as well as for a new reserve currency,
replacing the rather worthless debt ridden dollar â?" a welcome feat
for the world.

Along with the new BRICS(A) currency will come a new international
payment settlement system, replacing the SWIFT and IBAN exchanges,
thereby breaking the hegemony of the infamous privately owned
currency and gold manipulator, the Bank for International Settlement
(BIS) in Basle, Switzerland â?" also called the central bank of all
central banks.

To be sure â?" the BIS is a privately owned for profit institution,
was created in the early 1930's, in the midst of the big economic
melt-down of the 20th Century. The BIS was formed precisely for that
purpose â?" to control the world's monetary system, along with the
also privately owned FED and the Wall Street Banksters â?" the epitome
of private unregulated ownership.

The BIS is known to hold at least half a dozen secret meetings per
year, attended by the world's elite, deciding the fate of countries
and entire populations. Their demise would be another welcome new
development.

As the new trading road and monetary system will take hold, other
countries and nations, so far in the claws of US dependence, will
flock to the 'new system', gradually isolating Washington's military
industrial economy (sic) and its NATO killing machine.

This Economic Sea Change may bring the empire to its knees, without
spilling a drop of blood. An area of new hope for justice and more
equality, a rebirth of sovereign states, may dawn and turn the spiral
of darkness into a spiral of light.

Peter Koenig is an economist and former World Bank staff. He worked
extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water
resources.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38165.htm

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

I was watching MSNBC as they were discussing growing income inequality and i made a bet with the lady next to me that they would discuss everything but the real problem and solutions. Sure enough they talked about the pope then Jesus and religion and a picture of Obama with the pope was there but not a single word about what causes it and nothing about fixing it that resembled anything remotely reasonable. This is the western media at its best - serving its corporate masters by bsing its way out of issues that really matter.

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

The bs of positive thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

[Serjik]

Re: Economics

Wow, I guess Im back posting again (school tests are over LOL) but Hyeclub gods are deleting most of my posts...

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilMx7k7mso

Great example of oligopoly/monopoly depending on where you are.

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

Here is a cool music vid about the whole spending more or spending less arguments regarding the government.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=GTQnarzmTOc&feature=fvwp

[Haykakan]

Re: Economics

Armenia lives in a oil rich region just it so happens that the oil it sits on is too deep to extract economically. Once Armenia joins the custom union oil price wont be much of an issue. As for independence well you can never be independent if you cannot guarantee your own security. Armenia does make good use of the energy sources it does haveit is actually more efficient then the USA.