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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An Evening with Fancy Economists
Readers of this blog may remember that I visited the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last spring for a
Banks to Cash in on QE2 (Yves Smith)
More on QE2--just hit my inbox, an interview with Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism on the Real News Network;
Nov/Dec Issue, QE2, etc.
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The Will to Power
A review of Power Hungry by Robert Bryce (New York: PublicAffairs, 2010) and Conquering Carbon by Felicia Jackson (London: New
That Hurt! Let's Do It Again.
A Tale of Two Recoveries It's official: The Great Recession ended 15 months ago, in June 2009. ... [T]
Deficits: Real Issue, Phony Debates
Deficits have now risen, yet again, to headline status. Conservatives inside and to the right of the Republican Party frame
Why France Matters, plus...
[This post's "possibly irrelevant image" is a detail from the cover of the new edition of
Foreclosures, Temps, Freelancers, etc.
(1) The House that Set off the National Furor over Faulty Foreclosures: That's how a great article in
Foreclosure Trouble, etc.
(1) "Foreclosuregate" and the too-big-to-fail banks: The blogosphere is abuzz about the trouble the big