Clearing Up the Global Economy after the Mozarty New Year Enlightenment Party

With Madame Adelaidezone


Unenlightened persons frequently have an unhealthy obsession with pseudo-celebrity gossip.  If there is a murky or cozy deal happening somewhere, a politically and economically ignorant personage will want to know all about it only if the scandal involves someone who regularly appears on television.  Ignorant persons often include bankers.

The real deals usually happen behind closed doors, on the higher floors of office blocks, or within the confines of exclusive clubs.  I am a member of an exclusive club myself, namely the Australian Political Reform Club.  Recently, I overheard a conversation there between President Baroque Obama, a representative of a failing economy, and Emeritus Professor Talleyrand, a colleague of mine at the International Training Centre for the Harmonious Interplay of Beauty, Understanding and Magnificence.

But should I tell you anything at all about that conversation?  If you know even just a little bit about fairness, democracy and the prices and availability of tickets for very popular concerts, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will possibly be able to enlighten you for only EUR 30 if you act quickly.

Perhaps I shall place my name in the next ballot for a New Year Concert ticket at the Musikverein, rather than for the presidency of France or the United States of America.  The way the global economy is going at present, I may even be able to purchase the currently quite expensive EUR 940 New Year Concert ticket very cheaply.  It may be worth less than EUR 30 in twelve months time against the Australian dollar.

From the conversation I overheard, Emeritus Professor Talleyrand believes that future conferences and conversations, whether in Vienna, Washington, Adelaide, Los Cabos or anywhere else in the world, should be built upon substantial BRICS.  Perhaps the global economy in the years ahead will reveal more of the journey from Mao to Mozart.