Fighting Climate Change in Portlandia
Not only is failure not an option, those fighting to avert cataclysmic climate change have achieved important successes worthy of celebrating.
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Elections in the Other Ueber-Exporter: Germany
Germany, too holds a general election very soon. The ruling center-right Christian Democrats, under chancellor Angela Merkel, have been expected
US Second Quarter Earnings Roundup
From the New York Times' Site: U.S. Second-Quarter Earnings Tough to Beat By REUTERS Published: August 30, 2009
Japanese Election: Ruling LDP Gets Hammered
From The New York Times: Japanese Opposition Wins Elections in Landslide By MARTIN FACKLER Published: August 30, 2009 TOKYO In
Getting Health Care Incentives Right
David Goldhill's father, 83 but still working, walked into a non-profit Manhattan hospital with pneumonia. Five weeks later
The Crisis and US Export/Import Destinations
Wonder how this reflects on NAFTA (especially from a Mexican perspective--they're getting absolutely killed by this). From Vox
Calculating the Benefit of Our Present Healthcare
Many people aready know much of this, but these are points that deserve to be hammered into our heads these
China's "Bailout" of Taiwan
From Reuters: 02:25 August 26th, 2009 China's bailout of Taiwan is good for the region By: Wei
This Is What We Get for All the Bailout Money
Two related posts here: Simon Johnson of Baseline Scenario looks at the shakeout in the banking system that he says
Excellent Radio on Afghanistan
Doug Henwood's weekly radio program is just about the best there is on politics and economics generally, but
Indicators That Fell Through The Cracks...
...this week (sorry about that!): UK business investment falls at fastest rate since records began in 1966, despite rock-bottom interest
China's Stimulus and Dodgy Statistics
From The Guardian: Too early to hail China's stimulus success China may be on course to hit its
More Telecoms Regulation?
Let's hope the administration's regulators are more aggressive in pursuing this hated quartet than they have