Brink

It does feel like it's the end of the world. 

Natural disasters. Epidemics and pandemics. Credit Crunch. Inflation. Quarantine. Lock down.

It does feel like a doomsday oratorical piece I have delivered when I was 12.

And how overwhelming for our generation to be given this opportunity (non-choice) to make decisions that have such high-stake implications!

As individuals, and most especially those not dabbling or swamped in what has become a messier discipline of being socially involved, we feel some detachment - that our woes can only be solved by others in high places: finance ministers, health ministers, CEO's, everyone else, the Others.

But really, without sounding condescending, our woes, and their solutions are just the sum of the individual choices and decisions we take.

Should you wear a mask to go to work to help prevent the spread of the swine flu virus, or just to deliver a message of solidarity with our compatriots in Mexico and the US, and all those xy countries already reporting cases of mild/severe swine flu?

Should you buy that ridiculously expensive bag and simulate GDP growth by increasing private consumption? Or should you save the money somewhere in a bank that might go under, crashed by the weight of its nonperforming assets and subprime loans?

What are nonperforming assets? Can subprime loans be primed?

Should I drink tonight? Should I watch Angels and Demons this weekend?

I don't plan to seek answers for all these questions for you. These are my questions too. And while by profession, and specialization, I am allegedly better equipped to grasp these issues, I write this blog to discuss topics that are not about me.  :-) 

I write mainly to write.  If there are positive social externalities to this blog, then so be it!

This will be about the bigger picture!  Don't blame me, though, because I fit myself into pictures - big or small - quite nicely.

Money Me.

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