On Markets a-falling
The other day I mentioned to a friend in finance that I thought the markets were going to keep falling much more. “That’s rather pessimistic”, he said. My reply: “No, that’s me being optimistic. I actually think that they are going to crash burn and disappear*.”
That’s my opinion and mostly I’ve been wondering for the 2 years-ish since leaving America what I’m meant to do in such a situation, whether business will change, whether we’ll understand that the idea of constant growth with no rest is a huge problem (cancer…) what will happen, what one/I should do with money, investments etc…any ideas? (I used to threaten to buy a farm and just live it out…but I’m still a city gal at heart - the nice thing is now people don’t laugh).
At the same time, one of the hardest things for me to do over the last few years was back up and explain my ‘feeling’ that something was wrong (well many things) and why I was/am so sure we are still crashing…
Today I came across some great links and explanations:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo
And this interview and article (all via Dave Pollard - thanks!)
Hope you enjoy them. And with that I think I’ll go head into the sunshine…
End note *The good news is I also realized that the earth herself will look after herself — it just may not look after us.
Tags: change, credit crisis explained, digital storytelling, markets falling
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April 17th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
A nice video to join in on this: http://blogs.natlogic.com/friend/2009/03/our_financial_problems_explain_1.html
and thanks Gil Friend for the plug in the PS too! http://blogs.natlogic.com/friend/2009/03/ps_more_finance_insight.html