… as  “Business Titans”  and the “Best Minds” meet to discuss global economics …

Daniel [2:1]  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. [2]  Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. [3]  And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

“We have an absolutely unique opportunity today, but it comes with its set of challenges. The first big challenge comprises ecological sustainability and tackling climate change. The second is that of reducing poverty and inequality in the world. Azim H. Premji, Chairman, Wipro, India

 “Bankers are already trying to wriggle out of their responsibilities. In some countries they are lobbying quite successfully against tougher capital and liquidity requirements, against more effective depositor protection and they are planning to pay out their largest-ever bonuses.” Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation and Federal Councillor of Economic Affairs, Switzerland

The WEF had the insight and the courage to recognize that underneath the economic crisis, there was also a values crisis; and that an economic recovery must be accompanied by a moral recovery as well.” Jim Wallis, Author, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, Sojourners, USA

We have to ask what an economy would look like if it were genuinely focused on making and sustaining a home – a social environment that offered security for citizens, including those who could not contribute in obvious ways to productive and profit-making business; an environment in which we felt free to forego the tempting fantasies of unlimited growth in exchange for the knowledge that we could hand on to our children and grandchildren a world: a social and material nexus of relations that would go on nourishing proper three-dimensional human beings – people whose family bonds, imaginative lives and capacity for mutual understanding and sympathy were regarded as every bit as important as their material prosperity.” Archbishop Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

 “Yes, the bankers have done a lot of mistakes.  There were a lot of mistakes made. But it is time to stop the shame and blame. There are a lot of people unemployed in the world [and] the market economy can only be maintained or continued by confidence.” Ferit F. Sahenk, Chairman, Dogus Group

“It’s not just about shareholder return anymore.  That’s not the focus. It’s stakeholder return. Let’s look across the entire system, and not just focus on short-term profits, but on long-term stakeholder value.” Timothy P. Flynn, Chairman, KPMG International

“I think the big question is how strong the recovery will be, how self-reliant and resilient it will be, once governments and policy-makers begin to pull back on the various forms of fiscal and monetary stimulus that have been put in place.” Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank, United Kingdom

 “I think the biggest problem in the U.S. is . . . far too large a percentage of our resources go into the relatively unproductive segment of Defense. If we had not started the war in Iraq, and spent a trillion dollars there . . . we would have far more freedom now to respond to this short-term crisis.” Barney Frank, Congressman from Massachusetts (Democrat), 4th District; Chairman, Financial Services Committee, USA

“This is a fool’s paradise, for people who think [the recession] is over… If we don’t have jobs, there is no sustainable way of re-balancing the global economy…People… sit here and say ‘It’s over’, while we know there are millions of jobs still to be lost.” Sharan Burrow, President, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

“I think we’re over the hump. When you look, at least in Asia, the manufacturing sector, they’re back. And I think… it is going to be the emerging countries who are going to be leading the recovery.” Hirotaka Takeuchi, Dean, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University

 “I also believe that a country can rise from the ashes in a very short time . . . ” Don’t tell me Haiti can’t do this. This is an opportunity to re-imagine the future, for Haitian people to build the country that they want to become, instead of to re-build what they used to be.” William J. Clinton, Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation

“This is the time to show that the WTO is not only about profit and greed. This is the time for all countries to offer duty-free, quota-free, to all Haitian products with simplified rules-of-origin.” Celso Amorim, Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil

Daniel 2 [44]  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. [45]  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Daniel

Matthew 4:17Matthew 4:17
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.  

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Jesus reigns forever…

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