A society that doesn’t support a reasonable amount of paid parental leave, institutionalizes sexism and damaging income inequality while compounding self-defeating economic costs. Want to see an organic, sustainable recovery in prosperity? Help families earn a self-supporting income. It’s in everyone’s best interests.
America says it loves moms, but it’s one of the few countries that doesn’t have a key policy that can help them. Here is a direct video link.
Daily exercise is key to health, but what we eat is by far the most determinate factor on our weight as well as our carbon and environmental impact.
Since 1980, the obesity prevalence has doubled worldwide with about 13 percen
t of the global population now registering as obese, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, nearly 70 percent of the population is either overweight or obese.
A lack of exercise and too many calories have been depicted as equal causes of the crisis. But as researchers put it in an article in BMJ, “You cannot outrun a bad diet.” See: The exercise myth.
This discussion on the far-ranging impact of how we are choosing to produce and consume food is important to grasp. Watch: What’s wrong with food in America
The debt bubble in China has helped to push levered capital into realty and financial markets around the world…When the bubble bursts in China, the shock is also likely to further deflate world demand and asset markets.
George Magnus, author and senior economic advisor at UBS, discusses China’s debt buildup, the economy and the possibility of a financial crisis in the country. Here is a direct video link.
