As we move forward in time, having wavered from the group of countries known as the European Union, there may be some circumstances we will need to suffer through in order to move onwards and upwards. The British people feel strongly about control, in particular being controlled by others. And the urge to Freedom is universal. So with that in mind, the majority of Brits decided that we should leave the European Union.

At the end of the day, it is trade that makes the world go round. The Romans founded an empire on trade around the Mediterranean. The Vikings travelled and traded all around the Baltic, the Middle East, the Atlantic sea board and the North Sea, even into the Middle East.

Marco Polo made his way to the East and back, bringing tales of fabulous wealth, of new materials and spices and exotically different cultures all the way to China through Persia and the other lands of the Silk Road. And with this trade in silks and china, spices and precious jewels, came back ideas from the philosophers of Greece recorded by the Arabic thinkers and knowledge developed by mathematicians of the Middle East creating what became known as the Renaissance in Italy and the rest of Europe.

Great Britain in past centuries traded by sea all over the known world from 1600′s onward and explored and discovered other unknown worlds, along with Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese explorers who found sea routes to the Americas, both north and south, to the West Indies, to Africa, India, to Australia and New Zealand and the many different lands and islands of the Far East.

Whatever happens, people will still need and want to do business and trade whatever services and products they can produce and deliver, and want to exchange them with other nations and cultures in other parts of the world. Sane people will come to agreements that permit this. Sane governments and politicians will work it out so this can still occur as we still depend on each other buying and selling our goods and services — for our future survival is mutual and interdependent.

There are a lot of things being said about the economy, about recession and finance, personal, national and global.

No matter what the “experts” try to tell us, there are some fundamental things you can rely on which don’t change. It’s not a question of fashion or whether you follow one brand of economics or another or which political party you belong to, it’s just practical laws of life, no matter what any one says.  These are simple things like  income must be greater than an outgo. For any individual or group to survive, it has to give good exchange with the people around it. The more and the better the quantity and quality of the exchange, the better things will be.

We don’t make money. Only the Mint “makes money” when it stamps coins and prints notes. What we can be sure of is the more money it  “makes”,  if the amount of goods and service available to consumers stays the same, the greater the amount inflation will be

We give value and service and deliver products . How good we are at doing this depends on how creative we are,  how well we think and then follow through and act. Sometimes there’s a gap in between the moment when we think and the time when we act. Sometimes we need to learn how to do something first before we can deliver a service or create a product, and it might not be as short as we’d hoped…. and so we are going forward on a promise and hope of a dream. Better that than no hope of something better and doing nothing to make it change for the better.

There is something we can be sure of. If we try to help people and we  do and produce things that will help them, we’ll be of  more value, more use to others and to ourselves, and that will help us all to survive.   Money and goods will flow and move and we can breathe some life into it. Sometimes, it seems to me that’s what internet marketing is about.

What do you think?