Cyprus on the Thames?

Stephanie Flanders, Economics editor at BBC News, asks: Should Britain let go of London?

My commentary:

Since 2009, I have been asking whether London and New York City depend too much on finance for GDP/growth and for jobs.

In a recent visit in London I realised that London also depends heavily on tourism, monetising well on its history, among other things.

But with the Cyprus economic model now disassembling,  some on Twitter have suggested that London is like Cyprus.

Also:

Read this analysis from 2009 from my main blog as to whether NYC or London are in sync with the rest of the US and UK.

Mansion, car, mansion, in Europe?

Some recent tweets:

For the South of Europe to have more say it must invest more and better in European Affairs
We have nothing to Europe but Europe itself Mar 25, 2013
German comments have to appeal in Germany while not causing stir abroad. Not that easy!
Most of my comments are not "political" if you read them as such, you are misreading. They are "geeky".
In America, one lives one year in a mansion next in his car. Thus next again in a mansion. In Europe ...
Europe is no America. The streets are paved with stones.
Greeks' problems to deal with the crisis can be seen in lack of flat-sharing trends, they are bowling alone
In the modern collosseum, everyone is in the arena, esp the people.
The media, policy makers, commentators are not the "gladiators", the people are.
Haute economic couture (aka modelling). Calling all modelists to submit ideas for a new model?
Is Cyprus the medium for Germany to send a message to all "havens" concerned in the EU and globally?
Writing the script for a film tilted Things We Lost in the Euro Crisis? #popcultref
The matrix has won, long live the matrix.
Does the Cyprus solution mean that ordoliberalism is indeed shared by most German parties? #geekview If you need background briefing re the ordoliberalism comment, contact me
restart the economy? what economy?
It succeeded because it lasted long enough for the Euro status quo of the time to shift
Today in 1821 Greece started its independence effort in spite of the governing dynamics of the time
Το οικονομικό δογμα της Μέρκελ? Τώρα το καταλάβατε?
After visiting the Attikis Sq area this evening to vlog for my Spartan in Austerity Central project, nothing is too depressing, including CY
Global, mobile, flexible: http://t.co/DyCXI3v45z via @YouTube

Matrix

Much like mass media, Twitter has a "Matrix" effect on people, only, in some aspects, more powerful. Second in size to Facebook, its population still makes it bigger than the US and smaller only to China, India and the EU.

Talking of the EU, the photos of ATMs in Cyprus are doing what to the systemics of capitalism? The economy is a social system after all. And messing with the paranoia of the "rational investor" is .... The economy, st.....!

UK: Have the Eurosceptics won the EU debate?

Have the UK Eurosceptics won the debate?

Well, the debate has been going on, informally, for many years. And the Eurosceptics have more or less dominated it. It there still a debate or room for a debate re the EU in the UK?

Some apparently think so.

But after so many years of active Eurosceptic influence, it seems that any effort to reverse the dynamic is as futile as the come from behind Yes side in the Euro referendum in Sweden a decade ago. But as they say in French, on verra!

Will the luck of the Irish help the EU?

This first semester of 2013 features a Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU (note: not of the EU or the European Council).

It follows the Cyprus Presidency.

Irish PM said he hopes his country will be exiting the bailout program by year's end.

EU how many?

While the UK is considering leaving the EU27, Croatia is joining the EU in less than 6 months, July 1, 2013.
So will it be 28 or 27 in a few years?

20 years after the launch of the EU Single Market: Where's the beef?

EU27 biz and citizens need a better EU single market.

Can a real EU Single Market happen without of United States of Europe?

For better balanced global systemics

Time bilateral trade agreements and WTO include mobility of labour - HR capital?

Governing Dynamics: The effects of just-in-time and outsourcing

In a recent chat on Twitter, I begged to differ re ICT as the cause of the globalization, or in general the dynamics, we have been living in.

In this August 2011 video log (vlog), I discuss in 7'38" why I think that just-in-time as a production/logistics/operations process that started decades ago as well as global outsourcing have been/are the real drivers of globalization as we have experienced it.

I also pose the question when will the pace of systemics and dynamics exceed humans' capacity to cope with.

http://youtu.be/3KQGVbsuuRs