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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Lehman: The Art of the 'Sale'
Friday saw the release of a mammoth official report on the demise of the late, lamented Lehman Brothers. Written by
(Repost from March 9:) Items on Greece
A couple of items on Greece: First, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, who is working on an article for us on the
(Repost from Feb. 25:) Goldman Sachs and Greece
Dear blog readers: This is a restored version of one of the posts, from Feb. 25, that we lost when
Unemployment at 9.7%; Links on Jobs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs numbers for February this morning; find the Employment Situation Summary here. I
Debt Vultures in Liberia (Greg Palast)
Greg Palast continues to follow the story of debt vultures who "buy up the loans of poor governments, wait
A Titanic Budget (Jo Comerford)
A great piece from Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project, recently posted at TomDispatch. Here is Tom Engelhardt'
The Defective Society
A review of The Economics of Integrity by Anna Bernasek (HarperCollins, 2010).
Haiti's Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
The mainstream media got half the story right about Haiti. Reporters observed that Haiti's stark poverty intensified the
The Undeserving Rich
Collectively produced and inherited knowledge and the (re)distribution of income and wealth.