5 days ago by Robert Paterson

This Saturday ( Details Here) I will join a gang of people at UPEI to spend the day thinking about the practical aspects of shifting much of our food system to a local one. Behind this is the context of Food Security. We don't really think much about how dependent we are on cheap and easy to get oil ...

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22 days ago by lnxwalt

After a year in which it seemed that the new administration was merely an extension of the old, many people are waiting to see some of the “change” they were promised. Others fear that change, seeing it as moving us down a road to Soviet-style destruction, and therefore, they oppose the initiatives ...

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25 days ago by Robert Paterson

HT the WSJ! The core idea behind comp at the banks is "performance". This is seen as being "Personal" performance. The fact that traders use the huge balance sheet of the banks to get gearing, the fact that the carry cost is all but free, the fact that the banks would not even be ...

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40 days ago by lnxwalt

This is a pretty amazing animation that shows just how widespread and how deep the recession has been. N3TM0uSe The only thing is, this is not just a recession. It might not even be just a depression. It seems to be a permanent inflection point in the national economy. If you look at the job losses, ...

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40 days ago by lnxwalt

This is a pretty amazing animation that shows just how widespread and how deep the recession has been. N3TM0uSe The only thing is, this is not just a recession. It might not even be just a depression. It seems to be a permanent inflection point in the national economy. If you look at the job losses, ...

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64 days ago

With the Climategate scandal and the Econolypse, we now have two major issues in our society where hidden activities were revealed. In the case of the economy, the schemers in the financial industry were surprised when their "sure thing" collapsed, leaving an expensive mess for the rest of us to cle ...

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81 days ago by lnxwalt

Foreclosures hitting more people with good credit – Yahoo! News The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down housing prices and raises concerns about the broader economic recovery. N3TM0uSe The latest evidence was a r ...

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81 days ago by lnxwalt

Foreclosures hitting more people with good credit – Yahoo! News The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down housing prices and raises concerns about the broader economic recovery. N3TM0uSe The latest evidence was a r ...

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83 days ago by Robert Paterson

We start with people losing homes - then jobs - but hunger stalks the land - the Depression is here.

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95 days ago by lnxwalt

What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent – Yahoo! Finance N3TM0uSe And the unemployment rate doesn’t include people without jobs who have stopped looking, or those who have settled for part-time jobs. Counting those people, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent, the highest since at ...

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