Why are Canadians the world's energy pigs?
Canada is rich, big and cold, and we share two borders with the United States. Those factors explain why we are the world’s energy pigs, but they do not justify it.
Welcome to Fantasy Air
Roger Bezdek asks a question that answers itself: "What is more important: Food or cheap air fares to Las Vegas and Vail?"
From Economics--Dec. 18
The consensus is moving from the soft vs. hard landing debate towards how severe the hard landing will be
Nouriel Roubini, Global EconoMonitor
While a few months ago analysts were still heatedly debating whether the US would experience a soft landing or a hard landing (a recession) the center of the macro debate has now clearly shifted away from soft landing versus hard landing discussion to a recognition that a hard landing is the most likely scenario; thus, increasingly now the debate is on how deep and severe the forthcoming hard landing will be.
David Rosenberg of Merrill Lynch is now clearly predicting a recession for the US economy in 2008; Jan Hatzius at Goldman Sachs is not formally speaking of a certain recession in 2008 but most of his analysis is consistent with a high likelihood of a recession in 2008; Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com is also very close to a hard landing view.
More interesting now even the thoughtful Richard Berner - who used to be strongly in the soft landing camp while his counterpart Steve Roach was in the hard landing camp - is now predicting a recession in the US in 2008, even if he expects such a recession to be mild.
(11 December 2007)
WTO Director Pascal Lamy: "Capitalism Cannot Satisfy Us"
Daniel Fortin and Mathieu Magnaudeix, Challenges (English version at Truthout)
World Trade Organization Director Pascal Lamy, one of globalization's shrewdest observers, rehabilitates the Marxist criticism of capitalism.
Food&Agriculture--Dec. 18
Our Decrepit Food Factories
Michael Pollan, New York Times Magazine
The Price of Things
Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book
(a response to John Michael Greer)
see her list of recommended reading:
The Best Books About Nearly Everything - Part I
Part II
Books to Help Us Understand Where We Are Now
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