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    3 Apes and a Recession
    3 Apes and a Recession
    3 Apes and a Recession
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    3 Apes and a Recession

    By Oluwafemi Reis

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    At the peak of the global economic meltdown, veteran professor of economics, Ola Williams, is invited to address world leaders, economists, financial analysts and other pertinent experts at the World Economic Summit in Geneva.
    Known for his proven economic theories and brilliant postulates, expectations are high that his carefully researched data and in-depth analysis would chart a course that can be followed through to solve the looming economic problem that has swept through major economies of the world.

    It is 8:15PM and Professor Williams is welcomed to the podium with a rousing applause that takes a little while to die down. The hall is soon in perfect silence. Professor Williams clenches the sides of the lectern with both hands; he has no notes, no slides, no charts, no graphs, just a warm smile on his 76-year-old face, and a heart that is ready to speak.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOluwafemi Reis
    Release dateJun 22, 2017
    ISBN9781387055920
    3 Apes and a Recession
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    Oluwafemi Reis

    For me, nothing holds more prospects than a blank sheet. Depending on what comes on it, it could save a life or destroy a soul; it could start a new home or end an old marriage; it could spell the difference between soaring high and sinking low; in plain terms, it could either give life—nice and warm—or bring death—cold and pale. But while the sheet is blank, the choice remains with us. I believe strongly in The Written Word.

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      Book preview

      3 Apes and a Recession - Oluwafemi Reis

      BOOK IN PROGRESS

      The year is 2076. In an old people’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, 92-year-old software developer, Benny Gilbert, 90-year-old award winning journalist, Simon Avner, and 94-year-old billionaire attorney, Ryan Fleming, spend a rainy day together to talk about their lives, chronicling from where they once were, to where they now are, and where they wish they were.

      This is a story about three men and the five cardinal choices that life brings to all. You might never know when these choices come, but you would surely know when they’re gone. Find yourself in the story. Saving Tomorrow, Losing Today.

      GET IT FOR FREE HERE:

      http://www.femireis.com/index.php/freebook

      Contents

      Prologue

      Geneva

      The Story

      A Recession Is When We Pursue the Life We Don’t Have At the Expense of the Life We Have

      A Recession Is When Worth And Value Are Purely Determined By Numbers

      A Recession Is When Bananas Become More Important Than Apes

      A Recession Is When Our Whole Lives Are Devoted To The Farm And Barn

      A Recession Is When We Trade the Things Money Can’t Buy To Gain the Things Money Can Buy

      3 Apes and a Recession

      Is something wrong with our economy, or is something wrong with us?

      Copyright © 2017 by Oluwafemi Reis

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Prologue

      At the peak of the global economic meltdown, veteran professor of economics, Ola Williams, is invited to address world leaders, economists, financial analysts and other pertinent experts at the World Economic Summit in Geneva.

      Known for his proven economic theories and brilliant postulates, expectations are high that his carefully researched data and in-depth analysis would chart a course that can be followed through to solve the looming economic problem that has swept through major economies of the world.

      It is 8:15PM and Professor Williams is welcomed to the podium with a rousing applause that takes a little while to die down. The hall is soon in perfect silence. Professor Williams clenches the sides of the lectern with both hands; he has no notes, no slides, no charts, no graphs, just a warm smile on his 76-year-old face, and a heart that is ready to speak.

      Geneva

      January 29th 2018

      Ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, neighbours and strangers. I feel compelled to smile and greet you Good evening, as would be appropriate for such a gathering as this, but then most of you might be forced to pick up your things and leave, concluding that there wouldn’t be any point listening to one more word from an old man who opens his speech with a big fat lie. Is there nothing good about the evening? I know most of us must have lost our patience, along with many other things we’ve lost over the past eight months—our jobs, our homes, our families, and for some who are not here with us tonight, their lives. It has gone past the red line for most of us, and the last thing we need is one more speech, or one more address, or one more story. Yet we are all here, left with little or no patience, to listen to these very things. I consider that a huge sacrifice, and for that I say, Thank you, and good evening.

      Two weeks ago I was in Somalia, and I happened to spend more of my time among the dying than I did among the living. In a huge tent which served as a free clinic to the community where I worked, hundreds of sick people laid on beds in long rows, and I particularly made friends with this young man named Kamil. Day to day, Kamil laid there on his bed—skin and bones—to the doctors he wasn’t living, he was dying, but to me he was doing both, just like all the rest of us. Kamil was receiving treatment for acute cholera; though he didn’t respond so rapidly to treatment, he still seemed to get better by the inch, day by day. Soon Kamil could eat by himself, he could spend long hours talking with me, he could laugh, he could tell me jokes, and within a week he was out of the clinic. But two days later I saw Kamil wheeled back into the tent; this time he wasn’t dying, neither was he living; he was dead. The next day, one of the doctors tearfully explained to me that what was actually wrong with Kamil wasn’t cholera but some other disease that had cholera as a striking symptom; hence the doctors were treating the symptom, while the disease slowly killed Kamil like a smiling foe.

      Now it would have been beautiful to have us gather here on a different note than we’re gathered tonight; I wish we would desist from waiting till times are turbulent before we gather as one people, putting aside our fundamental differences. It indeed would be beautiful if we don’t have to wait till we have

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