Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future
Copper, the first metal worked by humans, will be crucial to decarbonization, and could be the path to a Chinese Century.
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Grand Casino, Biloxi, MS, five months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi. On August 29, 2005, the eye of
US Personal Consumption/GDP NOT 70% GDP
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US Second Quarter Earnings Roundup
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Japanese Election: Ruling LDP Gets Hammered
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Getting Health Care Incentives Right
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Wonder how this reflects on NAFTA (especially from a Mexican perspective--they're getting absolutely killed by this). From
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
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Excellent Radio on Afghanistan
Doug Henwood's weekly radio program is just about the best there is on politics and economics generally, but