Back to the Future – Depression Mark 2
The Great Depression began in 1929, in 2009 now another has begun.
Richard Whelan says short-term “fixes” for past problems created market distortions which fanned the flames of the current meltdown in financial markets. Click on this link to read his closely-argued essay, add a comment, and mail a link to interested colleagues and friends.
See also: Richard's latest views (June 2009) on the Great Recession.
 Richard
Whelan:
- Author of acclaimed
study on Al Qaeda
- Expert on war
on terror
"Al-Qaedaism:
The Threat to Islam, The Threat to the World” was
published by Ashfield Press, Dublin, in October 2005, and
is available on Amazon.
It has been translated into Turkish under the supervision
of Prof Dr Huseyin Bagci of the Middle East Technical University,
and was published in Turkey in May 2006 by Platin.
Click here for
more information on "Al-Qaedaism: The Threat to Islam,
The Threat to the World”.
Click here to download a high-resolution photograph of the author
Richard Whelan, a recently retired senior partner in an international financial
services company, is a member of the International Institute
for Strategic Studies and the Belgian Royal Institute for
International Relations.
He has studied international politics
and strategic studies independently for over 30 years.
He has carried out extensive private research during that
period
focusing on terrorism, WMD, the nuclear balance, and non-proliferation,
the conflict in the Middle East, strategic developments
in the USSR and Russia, the people’s Republic of China
and Taiwan, the first Gulf War, and the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan and related topics almost all of which has been
drawn upon in researching and writing “Al-Qaedaism
The Threat to Islam The Threat to the World”. |
