Towards the end of his life historian Arnold Toynbee said some remarkable and some would say prescient things. He believed that religion and spirituality give civilization its vitality, but that there can be bad religion that sucks the life out of civilization. He...
“Poker machine operators are knowingly preying on poor.” These are the words of Dr. Charles Livingstone, of Monash University’s Department of Health and Social Science. He was responding to the latest figures from Victoria’s gambling regulator that show Melbourne’s...
“Economic research shows that people who feel they are becoming better off over time are more generous, altruistic, and participatory.” Time magazine There is a rule of thumb that says when the top one percent own more than twenty percent of the nation’s wealth you...
The riots in the U.K. twelve months out from the London Olympic Games are a something of a salutary tale, for the whole world, particularly in the light of the current ongoing global economic shakings. In an attempt to reign in national debt the U.K.’s Treasurer...
The story of Rip Van Winkle is a metaphor about people who sleep through the revolution. The world continues to go through an amazing economic shake up, and it’s far from over. Currently, even if American politicians can climb in from their egos we are still in for...
