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Recession: lies in the eye of the beholder.

The topic above might sound funny; but the beholder above refers to the common man i.e. you and me. With this post I somehow want to establish a relation between how the mentality of a common man brings about recession in the economy. According to me true recession is brought by the fear the common man feels seeing his environment. I would like to define FEAR as "Fear Ends All in Recession". Ill like to start this post with my layman understanding of how the economy/industries operate today. Most of the industries today typically make just enough money for the organisation to sustain and make minimal growth (considering the fierce competition). To obtain exponential growth most of the companies rely upon financial institutions (like banks, venture capatalists etc) and people (share and security holders). The actual growth in the world with respect to land prices, minerals, commodities etc is very limited. Now how do each of these organizations get a piece of pie from this gro...

Is GOD Real?

During the early days of my life, my Mom asked me to summon 'God' religiously. I was told God is an almighty figure who controls each and every entity in the Universe. God is the Creater, maintainer and destroyer of everything. Initially I used to fear God and used to pray so that i dont have to face his wrath ;) or get punished for my bad karma, but never really used to respect him. But over the years in my life I have come to respect him. Lets start off by discussing what/who is God. God most commonly refers to the deity worshiped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and overseer of the universe. Conceptions of God held by individual believers vary so widely that there is no clear consensus on the nature of God. So if God is such a varied concept, why does majority of the humanity (barring a few atheists) beleive in this concept. A Man is a creative as well as a logical thinker. If something is beyond his logical knowledg...