Is this a global issue or just my log on?

pid=20601109&sid=a2jrSPqYhVzY&refer=home Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The classified ads in Dubai read like an obituary for a real-estate market that until a few months ago seemed immune from the global credit crisis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882) *The above quote is over 100 years old but still as relevant today with the current global econonic crisis!

Around the first week of December, Madoff told a senior employee that hedge fund clients had requested about $7 billion of their money back, and that he was struggling to pay them.Investors have been pulling money out of hedge funds, even those performing well, in an effort to reduce risk in their portfolios as the global economy weakens.The fraud alleged here could further encourage investors to pull money from hedge funds."

Emphasis on best.

U.S. government efforts to combat the recession will prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year, said Kim Heeseok, who oversees $160 billion as head of global investments for the service in Seoul.

They can make their own change.5- Protect our jobs6- Global warming, global cooling?

Global currency here we come...

That's probably more important than any set of global assumptions.

lol true that...it all started when USA decided to be independent, and that is good, but in a global economy now needs to communicate and trade globally at least to some extent.)