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 energy on Dec 25th, 2007
A friend sent me this article, my reply below.
Quote:
yeah, this is the line I hear from most (equivlently, “bad”)
economists, typically, because they just look at the price and say
that “our society could live with $100 oil, or $500 oil” or whatever
the number is. What they are ignoring though are scaling issues.
Sure solar energy [...]
Better than any sensationalism you will see in the MSM, this brief summary of the Real Lessons of 9/11, by Mike Gravel, could serve as a decent starting point for looking into this matter in a realistic fashion. The headings:
They Do Not Hate Us Because ‘We are Free.’
Anyone Could Have Imagined the 9/11 [...]
Posted in business schemes, energy on Jun 16th, 2007
I’m filing this one away for activation after I make my first billion…
It turns out there’s an almost entirely abandoned city only 30 miles from The Loop on the shore of Lake Michigan. What a far-sighted someone needs to do is buy up the center of the city and redevelop it into the Model City [...]
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 [...]
Covering Sen. Mike Gravel’s announcement of a legislative plan to end the Iraq war, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post* wrote:
The notion of Clinton or Barack Obama demanding passage of the Gravel plan was amusing, but no more than Gravel’s other foreign policy views. He asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “much smarter than [...]
The recent events surrounding the presidential campaign of Mike Gravel, though not of earth-shattering importance in and of themselves, encapsulate three trends that, though at the moment still subterranean, promise to burst out into the open in the next few years. All three involve in various ways the diminishing ability of the elite and elite [...]