Sustainable development: are cryptocurrencies becoming “eco-friendly”? Decrease in their ecological impact and example of eco-friendly cryptocurrency with the Eco Coin Bitcoin has often been criticized by environmentalists because of its high cost in electricity. But in 2020, many solutions centered around virtual currencies now make it possible to combine ecological responsibility and blockchain. [...]
Category: Money, economy and finance
Money dominates the world and it controls human societies ... It is therefore fundamental to know how the economy works and who controls money! How does high finance work? How can the global economy be sustainable and human? What is money? – Does money bring happiness? – How much has oil brought in? - The misconceptions about the economy and wealth – Debt money
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To embark on the social and solidarity economy (ESS)
Would you like to contribute to the development of a more just and sustainable society? Do you have entrepreneurial aspirations? Get started in the social and solidarity economy (ESS)! In the lines that follow, we present you the springs of the ESS and give you some keys to help you initiate your project. The ESS: presentation If its [...]
The benefits of automation and robotization for the environment
Robots, formerly from our imagination, are today a technology in full expansion. They do not necessarily look like Star Wars' R2-D2, but the goal of robotics is to help humans by assisting them or replacing them for difficult, dangerous or repetitive tasks. We do not see them every day, [...]
Green investment: gold goes green too
Is it possible to invest in gold while having a reduced impact on the environment? This is the question that more and more investors are asking to support their portfolio while maintaining an ecological awareness. At present, some solutions exist to invest in "clean" gold or to undermine virtual gold [...]
China and the green city of the future
Against the backdrop of a trade war with the United States and as Chinese growth slows, the Chinese government is setting up its "Greater Bay Area" project. With this megalopolis, Xi Jinping and others are hoping to supplant Silicon Valley and reinvent the green city of tomorrow. Who said economics did not rhyme [...]
Invest in gold or in bitcoins?
Should we invest in gold or bitcoin? At present, ecological issues are interfering in many areas of everyday life. When building, for example, it seems logical to turn to sustainable materials or to focus in detail on eco-responsible construction. In the field of investments too, a number of questions arise. Conciliate […]
The SMIC unit of measure of social injustice?
And if the SMIC became the unit of measure of social injustice! It was oh so difficult for this guest minister on the set of LCI to say his compensation face "disfigurements" of the system and its injustice "which recalled theirs to the rhythm of their breathing ... An example among others. But there […]
The Yellow Vests 600 Millions € in bank fees to the French for 2019!
The movement of Yellow Vests has already won 600 Millions € in bank fees to the French for 2019! Explanations ... Without the movement of Yellow Vests, in 2019, the French banks had planned to increase bank charges and levy in addition, the astronomical amount of 500 600 million € bank charges on [...]
Act V Yellow Vests, the origin of the movement, its future and its end?
Since its beginning last November 17, the movement of Yellow Vests is the news that echoes in the media. This event has already caused a lot of damage in France. It has grown and many people are wondering about the future of this movement. Until when will the blockages last? The demonstration […]
Forex Gold and Silver Trading: Features and Secrets
We had talked at some length about crypto-currencies, which are currently among the most volatile securities in finance. These are investments that allow rapid gains but also among the riskiest. What about mid 2018, more traditional investments like those in precious metals? It is possible […]
Bitcoins: recharge an electric car and pay in cryptocurrency!
Bitcoin is indeed the cryptographic currency that storms trading platforms and destabilizes stock market experts over the past decade, and since then, other virtual currencies have emerged such as Ethereum Classic, the one of the most traded cryocurrency 10, Litecoin or Ripple. A concept at first sight completely virtual that does not affect in [...]
How to trade with the ADX indicator?
If the technical indicators available are numerous, only a small number is really useful for efficient trading. Among them, the indicator ADX pulls out of the game. We explain why and how to use it. What is the ADX Indicator? The ADX indicator is a technical indicator that measures the strength of a trend on [...]
Forex Trading: How to Master the Leverage Effect?
Often presented as the responsible for the losses of beginner investors, especially on the Forex, the leverage is actually a double-edged tool that can allow you to increase your earnings tenfold. So how to master the leverage to make it an ally? But first of all, what is the leverage exactly [...]
Crypto Ripple Currency: Function and Benefits
The dazzling success of Bitcoin tends to eclipse other crypto currencies, or altcoins, whose number is nevertheless close to 1400. Among them is the Ripple, cryptocurrency third in terms of market capitalization behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. So what is the Ripple? Clarification. The Ripple, Crypto Currency [...]
Green finance is gaining ground in France
Green finance celebrating its 10 years today is attracting more and more players, companies to the States, wishing to take ownership of this major tool for financing climate. Nearly ten years after the first green operations carried out in 2008 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, the success of loans to finance the [...]
Moonlite project: reducing the environmental impact of bitcoins
Do cryptographic currencies have an impact on the environment? If you read a little bit the financial press, the spectacular rise experienced over the last ten years (and especially in 2017) by the course of Bitcoin, the famous currency invented by the "pseudonym" Satoshi Nakamoto, you will not have escaped. Perhaps you are one of the ambitious ones who [...]
Tips for getting started with stock trading and bitcoin (s)
Stock trading is currently upset by the arrival of trading on crypto-currencies, the famous bitcoin in the lead (there are in fact more 1300 other crypto-currencies), but the classic shares can still give nice performance and are safer than crypto-currencies. Here are some tips in classic stock trading and explanations and comparative [...]
Broken prices and low cost. Economic blessing or danger?
Low Cost: helped by considerable technological progress for two centuries, economic strategies have been guided by insatiable "capitalist" challenges ever more demanding in profits and always justified by the intervention of the invisible hand (1) "supposed to optimize for the greatest number the result of choice answering to [...]
The stakes of a new development model
After several centuries in which science, the model of economic development and the resulting technological developments have enchanted and made the world dream, at least the Western world, here are a thousand pitfalls for these "progress" to become questionable, subjects as a result of their serious impact with irreversible consequences [...]
More equity and solidarity in the economy: an equation of economic equity?
If we have published a lot (1) on our vision of equity and solidarity in and with the company, including on our blog RémiG DPP (see in particular the article "Model of ideal remuneration in company"), the news of the milk and meat sectors brings us back to our approach to the fair distribution of value [...]
Energy Label: improve information on energy performance and product durability
Energy Label: The UFC has just released a study on product performance and sustainability that is a rising consumer concern. While the revision of the Energy Label Directive is still ongoing at the European level, the UFC - Que Choisir publishes the final results of a qualitative survey (1) which highlights the very [...]
Opé2017, participatory platform against planned obsolescence
Please find hereafter the press release of the UFC concerning the launch of the participatory platform Opé2017 against the scheduled obsolescence! The C2017C Community, DemocracyOS, GreenIT.fr, Stop Obsolescence Programmed (HOP), the Friends of the World, have decided to include the issue of obsolescence organized in the programs of the presidential and legislative candidates of 2, ...]
Ma-Bonne-Action.com, solidarity marketing, humanitarian and charitable
Econologie.com presents Ma-Bonne-Action.com, an initiative of solidarity marketing, humanitarian and charity of Laurent Berthelot. An Ulule campaign has just been launched. Explanations. Take control of your data and take a good action. Choose: when, what and how to receive good deals about you. For each advertisement consulted, you finance associations free of charge. " Do you want […]
Economy: some prosperity to progressive austerity
Economics and Society: from a certain prosperity to a progressive austerity or from the welfare state to the gendarme state. Political debate is largely confined to the sole domain of managing the conflicting interests of the various social categories, through political formations supposed to ensure compromises sufficient to maintain the social structure. Most of [...]
For more solidarity between capital and labor, more equity in earnings
For more solidarity between capital and work or how to move the lines in the company for more equity in compensation? In his book "For more solidarity between capital and work" (L'Harmattan 2004 edition) Remi Guillet emphasizes the importance of the challenge of the company in the equitable sharing of [...]
Forbidden Country Doctors of the World against price gouging of some drugs
Yesterday the association Médecins du Monde has broadcast an advertising campaign "incisive" on the Internet about the price of abusive drug treatment. The campaign has, in fact, been refused broadcast by "traditional" displays by the Authority of professional regulation of advertising (ARPP). JCDecaux, MediaTransport and the Insert have therefore refused the displays of this [...]
Are the physical limits to growth relevant?
Are the physical limits to growth [1] relevant? Since KE Boulding's famous phrase [2] as well as the publication of the Club of Rome report, this physical limit has become commonplace: all the more reason to be wary of it and to question the validity of the assertion , since with global warming, these are […]
Work Act El Khomri: Blocked oil, the weapon of mass economic destruction?
Act Labor El Khomri: to oppose the reform of the Labor Law, trade unions now brandish the weapon of massive economic destruction (Hey yes ...) blocking refineries and deposits of petroleum fuels! And that could work to make a government fold that, at this point, does nothing but its head! Oil […]
Download: Green Nudges, incentives for ecological behavior
Green Nudges: New Incentives for Ecological Behavior There are many obstacles to adopting green behaviors, be they physical, financial or psychological. These constraints limit the effectiveness of traditional approaches that combine awareness campaigns, technological innovations and economic and normative instruments. Therefore, the contribution of new methods [...]
Strategies of manipulation of public opinion
Mass Manipulation Strategy… or how to manipulate public opinion in 10 rules… Find out more, sources and debate: strategies for manipulating people Mass Manipulation Strategy 1 / The strategy of diversion An essential element of social control, diversion strategy is to divert public attention from important issues and […]
psychological manipulation of rules and opinion of the population
10 rules used for centuries (millennia?) To try to manipulate the people ... or how to manipulate public opinion in 10 rules ... 1 Mass Manipulation Strategy / 2 Diversion Strategy / Create problems and then offer 3 solutions / 4 gradient strategy / 5 deferred strategy / Addressing the public as [...]
Debt crisis: abuse of trade unions in National Education in France
Social and trade union functioning and abuses in the French National Education, first or second post of the French budget (alternating between years with the burden of the debt) French national education is sick: the level of education of pupils Is in free fall but still it costs more and more expensive! Why? Or […]
How the French Education: budget and abuse
Union and Social Functioning and Abuse in French National Education Find out more: - Another very interesting video on the education system of our societies of growth and corresponding debate: education, why to do? .- See also this debate on gaps in national education programs Download the file (an inscription to the Newsletter may [...]
Solution to the crisis? Boost growth and above all trust: Argentine example 2001
Argentina suffered a bankruptcy in 2001 following a serious economic crisis between 1998 and 2002. The details of this crisis are explained on this wiki page. What we are interested in is the method used to manage the exit from crisis, explained in the short video that follows, extracted from a JT of France3. Currently, [...]
Ready to throw: history of programmed industrial obsolescence
To find out more: - Debate on planned obsolescence - Report on industrial obsolescence - Another report on the subject: Special Envoy: the Great Bluff Find out more: History of programmed industrial obsolescence
Work, happiness and motivation: the psychology of money
You thought that income was proportionally related to employee motivation and happiness? That is: the better we get paid, the more motivated and happy we are? Well no! This small video, presenting various very interesting studies on "the psychology of money", shows the opposite ... Just like the feeling of "happiness" that stops [...]
Company: basic income, social opportunity or neo-Communist utopia?
Basic Income, 1h30 Documentary film presenting the functioning, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. "An income is like the air under the wings of the bird! ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a civic right [...]
Download: The universal or basic income, the documentary film
Basic Income, 1h30 Documentary film presenting the functioning, advantages and disadvantages of the basic income principle. "An income is like the air under the wings of the bird! ". This is how the film begins. Should this income be unconditional for everyone? Is it possible, a right [...]
Video, the basic income: money and psychology Samuel Bendahan
Video taken as part of a conference on basic income or universal income explaining very interesting cases of studies in relation to our psychological relationship to money ... Read more: - Other videos (positive) about society ( that goes bad) - Debate on this video or the universal or basic income - [...]
civil nuclear energy: collusion between the IAEA and WHO
Links and collusion between the WHO (World Health Organization) and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Source for more information: debate on victims of civilian nuclear energy
Shale gas extraction, environmental and health risks
Shale Gas Review Board. Investigation and Public Hearing Report Quebec Report by the BAPE (Office of Public Hearings on the Environment) of 144 pages on the exploration and exploitation of shale gas and the potential environmental, health and social problems of its exploitation . Introduction Shale gas exploration and development projects [...]
Gasland, video report on shale gas
Gasland report (full video) on shale gas in the USA and its devastating effects on the environment Documentary in 7 parts on Youtube or Dailymotion. Europe will not be spared, it also has an interesting gas potential. José Bové seems to have become in a few weeks one of the leaders of the sensitization to the problems related [...]
Petrol Addict: oil dependency of our societies (Greenpeace)
January 2011 Greenpeace Campaign on Petro-Dependence Petrol Addict: How did we get here? More: - Debate on the dependence of our societies and western economies on oil - Relations between the price of oil, GDP and growth in OECD countries Download [...]
Descending, video report Special Envoy
Decreasing, less consuming to live better? A report by Sophie Romillat and David Geoffrion for Special Envoy, 02 / 2009. Sociologists call them "decreasing", in France, more and more people refuse to consume more and more. They refuse the spiral of the consumer society. When the rest of the [...]
Great bluff, a consumer society
The big bluff of home appliances. The planned obsolescence and overconsumption practices highlighted in France. Report of Special Envoy broadcast on France 2 in February 2010 Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. Scheduled obsolescence is the act of voluntarily making an obsolete product for a certain period of time "pre-programmed" in advance. It is […]
Planned obsolescence, company symbol waste
The programmed obsolescence, symbol of the society of waste. The case of electrical and electronic products. September 2010. By Marine Fabre and Wiebke Winkler. Publication of the Cniid and Friends of the Earth. Obsolescence is the fact that a product becomes obsolete. The programmed obsolescence is the fact of voluntarily making an obsolete product at the drink of a certain [...]
Le Grand Bluff appliances: false abuse reliability and sellers
How distribution and manufacturers are looking for maximum profitability on the backs of consumers. The big bluff of home appliances! Excerpts from February 2010's special envoy. To find out more: - Are we in a disposable society? - The industrial obsolescence, the history of a deception: facts and debate - Completeness of the report the Big Bluff of the household appliances [...]
Philippe Séguin denounces the scam of the public debt
Philippe Séguin, then the first President of the Court of Auditors, dares to speak freely about the public debt, one of the few (if not the only) policy to have dared to say that 100% of the income tax went into interest on the public debt and not in investment for the good of the country! He […]
Growth, GDP and energy consumption: energy tax and a new economic model?
Energy and economic growth: A BRIEF SUMMARY! by Remi Guillet. 3rd and last part: energy taxes. Read the 2nd part. Fuel taxes Traditionally, the fuel business has been a boon for governments, who find in it a significant budgetary revenue and a strategic lever enabling them to support or […]
Growth, GDP and energy consumption: the energy sources
Energy and economic growth: A BRIEF SUMMARY! by Remi Guillet. 2nd part: sources of energy, fossil or not. Read Part 1: energy consumption and economic growth, Part 3: taxes and the economic solution ?. The use of fossil fuels in the world… A closer examination teaches us that in reality about 95% […]
