Posted in audio, economics, energy, politics, self-reference on Oct 12th, 2008
As this goes to press, I just finished listening to an episode of the “Planet Money” podcast, an impromptu daily show that NPR has cooked up in the past few weeks solely to offer in depth coverage of the financial crisis. And also, one of my few remaining “guilty pleasures” from the broadcast media, This [...]
Posted in economics, energy, politics, self-reference on Jun 27th, 2008
I don’t have much time to post these days. Here is a distillation of my thoughts on the present energy-financial-geopolitical situation (this was posted at the point when oil is $140 a barrel, after the collapse of Bear but before that of Lehman, and as the S&P goes below 1285):
It’s clear something’s going to have [...]
Posted in economics, energy, self-reference on Mar 5th, 2008
The Shipping and Receiving department of megamachine.org has informed me that the promised review copy of “World Made by Hand” has arrived from James Howard Kunstler. Expect more on this new novel to appear here in the next few days.
Posted in economics, politics, satire, self-reference on Sep 21st, 2007
…since the final meeting of the Elders of Ancient Troy.
And since that august body seems to have nothing better to do than hold votes “condemning” newspaper ads I’m sure they are not going to let a direct insult, such as the title of this post, go unanswered. So, by all means, Senators, take the [...]
Posted in economics, energy, politics, video on May 24th, 2007
Ah irony of ironies, it’s not coming from the feckless Dem Congress (redundancy?), which doesn’t even have the gumption to stab the military juggernaut in the back, but from a country which owes its very existence to recent US military intervention. Kuwait’s act of decoupling its currency from the dollar also has a certain [...]
One of the very few I’ve heard who really put it all together. All except the energy/environmental situation, which would only add urgency to his message, but then, no one person can be a universal scholar anymore. The reason it would have fit well into this interview is that, according to much of [...]