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Confucianism focuses on personal benevolence and an ethical, harmonious, but very stratified society. Apart from Confucius, Meng Zi (372–289 BC) and Xun Zi (313–238 BC) also contributed to this school. Confucius was the illegitimate child of an impoverished aristocrat, born during a period of strife between Chinese states. As an adult, he travelled among these states, trying to [...]

The superficial purpose of the hexagrams is divination. But at a deeper level, the Yi Jing is many things: it is a philosophical book that teaches a method of dialectic thinking in a constantly changing macro- and micro-environment; it is a scientific book, outlining principles of astronomy, meteorology and physics; and it is a social treatise on how [...]

Because investing is not a sure thing in most cases, it is much like a game – you don’t know the outcome until the game has been played and a winner has been declared. Anytime you play almost any type of game, you have a strategy. Investing isn’t any different – you need an investment [...]

CSR continues to gain awareness and attention with executives, investors, media, and consumers. However, organizations vary widely in how they define and perceive CSR, and even more widely in how they approach it. There are broad and substantial philosophic, economic, and political elements to the debate, but for practical purposes, Corenec defines CSR as: Efforts [...]

Successful businesses universally strive to achieve better corporate governance, more effective measurement and management of risk, and greater assurance that compliance requirements are met. Whether or not these efforts bear the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) label, it’s important to understand the underlying benefits of coordinating these historically discrete functions to achieve greater efficiency and [...]

So far I have looked at how to recognize price movement which may be significant enough for me to profit from. One of the most important factors to bear in mind, regardless of the type of trading you are doing is to be aware of what the ‘Underlying’ trend is doing. The term ‘Underlying Trend’ [...]

Low-income tenants are finding it increasingly difficult to pay for a roof over their heads as rents surge and the national rental assistance scheme fails to keep pace with soaring costs. Median weekly rents in capital cities rose 41 per cent from 1995 to 2009 in constant dollars but the Commonwealth Rent Assistance – an [...]

Investors are understandably scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe. Amid their angst, however, they are ignoring a more likely, and significantly larger, debt catastrophe that is about to hit the nation with the second-largest economy in the world Japan. Two decades of stimulative, low-interest-rate fiscal policy have made Japan the most indebted [...]

CHINA Chinese banks may struggle to recoup about 23 percent of the 7.7 trillion yuan ($1.1 trillion) they’ve lent to finance local government infrastructure projects, according to a person with knowledge of data collected by the nation’s regulator. About half of all loans need to be serviced by secondary sources including guarantors because the ventures [...]

EUROPE Germany and France made the first step today towards the coordination of their tax policies today, as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble took part in the French Cabinet meeting and made a joint statement with French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. “The convergence between our fiscal systems is a essential element in our economic integration [...]