'But the brutal selloff on Wednesday just reminds us all how defined-contribution (DC) plans are not the answer to the looming retirement crisis. They are too vulnerable to the vagaries of public markets.' 'I realize markets are moving and all my buddies want me to focus on markets, not on pensions. I won't let you down but you will need to wait till Friday for me to collecby ProjectC - Project C
'..the school is serving the manifestation of the inner call of the student, instead of students blindly accepting the programmes of the school. This -we think- will decrease the amounts of drop-outs.' 'As an example of a (successful) prototype, I’d like to share my experiences with Hack your Education in the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Leiden. As part of our MoveMakby ProjectC - Project C
'..In Launceston, Tasmania, wintertime deaths from respiratory disease fell by 28% and cardiovascular disease by 20% when woodsmoke pollution was reduced by 17 ug/m3 PM2.5 in winter. Year round, for men, the reductions were 23% (respiratory) and 18% (cardiovascular)[4]. In Canada, deaths from ischemic heart disease increased by 30% when annual PM2.5 exposure increased by just 10 ug/m3[5].by ProjectC - Project C
'D5.1. Directing finance towards investment in infrastructure for mitigation and adaptation could provide additional resources. This could involve the mobilization of private funds by institutional investors, asset managers and development or investment banks, as well as the provision of public funds. Government policies that lower the risk of low-emission and adaptation investments can faciby ProjectC - Project C
'Nissan's first electric sedan designed for China began production Monday at the start of a wave of dozens of planned lower-cost electrics being created by global automakers for their biggest market. Manufacturers including General Motors and Volkswagen are poised this year to launch a flood of electric sedans, minivans and SUVs in China designed for local tastes and smaller budgets.by ProjectC - Project C
'Brown, who signed the bill amid a huddle of environmental and legislative leaders, also issued an executive order pushing the state to reduce its net output of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — including from the single largest source, cars and trucks — to zero by the same 2045 deadline. Meeting the 100 percent carbon-neutral goal in just 27 years and potentially becoming “net negativeby ProjectC - Project C
'..not only are we going to have to stop burning fossil fuels by the middle of this century, we are going to have to get very busy with planting trees, protecting forests, working out how to block the Sun's rays and developing machines to suck carbon out of the air.' 'We can avoid the hothouse scenario but it's going to take a fundamental re-adjustment of our relationsby ProjectC - Project C
'Most unfortunately, the Bubble is real, and it is decidedly global. It has been fueled by an unprecedented international boom in central bank Credit and sovereign debt. Underpinned by government finance and central bank liquidity backstops, over-liquefied markets accommodated unprecedented global corporate debt issuance. A comprehensive boom in global finance was fueled by a massive globalby ProjectC - Project C
'The Big Bang theory had predicted that even the oldest stars should have at least 0.4 lithium atoms for every billion hydrogen atoms, but observations found only 0.16. Lerner’s calculations demonstrated that all this lithium could have been produced not by the Big Bang, but by cosmic rays from intermediate mass stars (4-12 times more massive than the sun) in the early stages of formation ofby ProjectC - Project C
'We are seeing a great global attempt to plant and restore forest land but paradoxically we are still losing tree cover. The rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than half in 25 years but tree loss jumped 50% in 2016, and 2017 is likely to have been worse. The greatest threat to trees used to be loggers and the expansion of farming. These are still a threat, but human-caused deby ProjectC - Project C
'This is a time for dealing with particular problems as best we may, not to succumb to the destabilising myth of defined spheres of special interest, and inherent contradiction between rival poles of power.' 'It sometimes appears hard for Russian observers to understand that NATO is not and never has been Washington's to command, in the way that the Soviet Union was able toby ProjectC - Project C
'..In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.' 'If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.' - Sir John Templeton 'I believe strongly that therapists must have open minds. Just as more scientific work is necessary to document death-and-dyingby ProjectC - Project C
'..a new international treaty to protect the biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, commonly known as the High Seas which make up almost half of planet Earth. The High Seas play a critical role in the functioning of the entire ocean as well as our atmosphere, climate and terrestrial areas but remain unprotected by law allowing destructive human activities to continue unabated.by ProjectC - Project C
A HEALTHY OCEAN IS VITAL TO HUMAN HEALTH, SECURITY AND PROSPERITY - Ocean Elders 'Another example of the crises facing life in the high seas is the North Atlantic right whale .. it is believed that there are fewer than 100 reproductively mature females left alive .. And then there are seabirds. Data on all monitored seabird colonies around the world since 1950 show that populationsby ProjectC - Project C
'The world's largest institutional investors are going green. Over 200 firms, managing a combined $81.7 trillion, pledged earlier this month to regularly report the risk climate change poses to their business, and make progress on initiatives to reduce their impact on the planet. These reports — much like quarterly-earnings reports — will include climate-related topics like waterby ProjectC - Project C
'According to HSBC, extreme events have severe economic and social costs. “In our view, adaptation will move further up the agenda with a growing focus on the social consequences,” the analysts said.' <h3>One of the largest banks issued an alarming warning that Earth is running out of the resources to sustain life</h3> By Jeremy Berke August 8, 2018 Source <ulby ProjectC - Project C
Fifty years ago, this would be dismissed as alarmist, but now scientists have become really worried - Johan Rockström, executive director, Stockholm Resilience Centre '..Contrary to the Gaia theory, which suggests the Earth has a self-righting tendency, he says the feedbacks could push the planet to a more extreme state. .. “In the context of the summer of 2018, this is definitby ProjectC - Project C
'The two most important reasons as to why Canada's large pensions are fully funded are right there, world-class governance which separates governments from pensions allowing public pensions to manage more internally and adopting a shared risk model typically in the form of conditional inflation protection. Pensions are all about managing assets and liabilities. You can have a "dby ProjectC - Project C
'We have to rethink what corporate stewardship is, we have to rethink the way that management and shareholders share with: employ, customers, community, or otherwise we are going to be back to Milton Friedman and 90% taxes.' 'In the pursuit of Justness, Just capital. .. Philanthropic sector is about 360 billion a year, the government sector is about 4 trillion, the privateby ProjectC - Project C
Carpio: Why do economists in general not teach the role of saving for the economy? Hoppe: I agree with your assessment: In the economics profession today very little attention is given to the role of savings and very much, indeed overwhelming importance is attached instead to the role of consumption. This is a very curious situation. For while it is true that the ultimate goal of all human actby ProjectC - Project C
'The Institute of International Finance is out with their latest data that, unfortunately, is not made available in detail to the general public. Global debt ended the first quarter at a record $247 Trillion, or 318% of GDP. Even after a decade of historic Credit inflation, global debt continues to expand at ("Terminal Phase") double-digit rates (11.1% y-o-y). Global debt growtby ProjectC - Project C
'Until specialists and society in general fully grasp the essential theoretical and legal principles associated with money, bank credit, and economic cycles, we may realistically expect further suffering in the world due to damaging economic recessions which will inevitably and perpetually reappear until central banks lose their power to issue paper money with legal tender and bankers lose tby ProjectC - Project C
'Perhaps those currents will one day become the basis for other theories regarding the extremely small, or organic systems at the molecular level. As speculated in past articles, it would not be too great a stretch to think that electric currents might cause proteins to shake at varying rates, thus changing their behavior. Whether big or small, Kristian Birkeland’s influence continues to conby ProjectC - Project C
'..identifying not only the mainstream failure to recognize the dynamic elements of an economy but also pointing out the deficiencies of mathematical and statistical aggregates to teach us much of anything. We should recall, as Huerta de Soto reminds us, that "mainstream" economists not only failed to get 2008 right, they blew the whole 20th century by failing to predict the collapby ProjectC - Project C
'We oppose this EU copyright package because of its detrimental effects on internet freedom, access to knowledge, and collaboration online. .. The proposal is a serious threat to our mission as it fails to truly modernize copyright and ensure the law keeps up with reality. Wikimedia can only achieve its mission when everyone is able to share information freely and contribute to the colby ProjectC - Project C
'Electrical engineers and classical physicists have known for decades that only movement (flow) of electric charges causes magnetic fields. Electric current is the only cause of magnetic fields. Varying the strength and direction of those currents will move the magnetic fields around and vary their strength. Shutting off the causal electric current will cause magnetically stored energy to beby ProjectC - Project C
'Needless to say, the Riksbank heeds its legacy as the world’s oldest still-existing central bank. Symptomatically, it was born out of banking failure, was soon granted privileges to commit major errors of its own, and throughout its history it has all but impoverished Sweden. The bank has consistently made extraordinary interventions to benefit government at the expense of the people and ecby ProjectC - Project C
'Until specialists and society in general fully grasp the essential theoretical and legal principles associated with money, bank credit, and economic cycles, we may realistically expect further suffering in the world due to damaging economic recessions which will inevitably and perpetually reappear until central banks lose their power to issue paper money with legal tender and bankers lose tby ProjectC - Project C
'According to the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) the artificial lowering of interest rates by the central bank leads to a misallocation of resources because businesses undertake various capital projects that prior to the lowering of interest rates weren't considered as viable. This misallocation of resources is commonly described as an economic boom. .. The only way to stopby ProjectC - Project C
'Infants in shame-honor cultures, she says, are also often treated like objects and learn to repress their feelings to the point that internal rage can boil within. Making matters worse, Kobrin says, women in shame-honor cultures are also often devalued, objectified, or even physically abused. "Women who are abused also become full of rage," Kobrin says, noting that subconsciby ProjectC - Project C