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An unemployment reality check.

Jerry Schuitema

Aug 12, 2019
4 min

An unemployment reality check.

The impact of behaviour on the unemployment crisis. We have become a nation of takers. Without recognising this we will not fully understand the true nature of our persistent unemployment crisis. That is informed by the simple logic that when people by and large are taking more than they are contributing they create deficits and poverty. Conversely when they contribute more than they are taking they create surpluses and prosperity. In turn prosperity, according to long standi

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Name; shame; throw in jail.

Jerry Schuitema

Jul 15, 2019
4 min

Name; shame; throw in jail.

Time to hold individuals behind corporate and financial malfeasance accountable. Justice is the supreme condition that makes societies work. Few things can drive people to greater anger and frustration than when justice is seen not to be done. Yet it has been a feature of modern times that massive misconduct, white collar crimes, and tax and price manipulation have gone unpunished with perpetrators hiding behind corporate structures and complexity shields. In the last ten yea

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Our broken moral compass

Jerry Schuitema

Nov 5, 2018
4 min

Our broken moral compass

And the impact on economic prospects and low levels of trust. I’m not easily given to making economic forecasts. I invariably get it wrong although perhaps not much more than many economists do, with their battery of analysts backed by volumes of statistics and years of data. Few can do better, however, than the three scenarios outlined by the treasury in the medium term budget. In the end one has to rely as much on experience and intuition as on following closely current eve

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