Today is the first day of the year 4076 in the Chinese calendar and this year is Ji Chou, the Year of the Ox. Curiously enough the Year of the Ox represents calm, fortitude and success through hard work … quite fitting really. We need calm to weather the storm, take stock of the situation and restore confidence in battered, debt-ridden economies. We need the fortitude to face up to the harsh reality we find ourselves in and take the actions necessary, no matter how unpopular, to firstly stem and finally roll back the tide of financial decay. And of course none of this will solve anything without the hard work necessary to bring it to fruition.
Gong hei fat choi!