If You Like the Idea of a 4-Day Workweek, You’ll Love the 5-Hour Workday; Also: Belgian Workers Win Right to Request Four-Day Week
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If You Like the Idea of a 4-Day Workweek, You’ll Love the 5-Hour Workday; Also: Belgian Workers Win Right to Request Four-Day Week

Some companies are implementing shorter workdays while others are opting for shorter workweeks increasing productivity. Meanwhile, Belgium in mid-February announced a package of labor reforms that includes affording workers the right to request a four-day work week.

Russia’s Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
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Russia’s Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System

Sergey Glazyev, who is Russia’s Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU), answers a series of questions related to the design of a new monetary /financial system via an association between the EAEU and China, bypassing the U.S. dollar.

This Is Not the Age of Certainty. We are in the Time of Contradictions
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This Is Not the Age of Certainty. We are in the Time of Contradictions

It is hard to fathom the depths of our time, the terrible wars, and the confounding information that whizzes by without much wisdom. Certainties that flood the airwaves and the internet are easy to come by, but it appears that much of the ‘certainties’ are caught up in the ‘Cold War mentality’.