The Blogger’s Return

If Parliament can recess, then Bloggers can Break.

The Bloggers’s Return, on the other hand is more fruitful than Parliament’s re-entry session.

The advantage of our break is twofold. First of all, one comments with confidence on what happened during the recess and as a result looks pretty good, if not great. Secondly,  one finds out how popular one is with family and one’s audience- respectively, they get a well-deserved front look at the poster-person and the rush to the stats hoping for the hopeless is hopeless. That is the true blogger’s fate! faith?!.

Reality is that only a few things are unchanged. In part, the collected efforts and works of the better part of our defunct humanity slyly called the Greatful Dead! And, in passing that’s not many!

What has changed? Nothing much, sparsely speaking.  Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy have been downgraded by  rating agencies: the US is on the next short-list. The IMF has selected a new Managing Director and US Congress is laming a decision on the debt limit-but it won’t affect their salaries. A new nation in Africa-South Sudan, has replaced Haiti as the poorest nation in the world. Haiti still awaits for its announced relief contributions from some Western democracies. Stock markets are so jittery that it looks like they’re dancing to the tune of a tarantella. Finally, no one knows what to do about the global economy other than China-although it’s also starting to worry about inflation. Yet, China will not cash in on its US Treasuries.

So where do we go from here. Best is to start with the IMF because its continuity is so critical to the low-income regions of world.