Post Copenhagen
Climate Progress provides a feisty, informative, invaluable news service on all things climatic. Here is a snippet of their judgement on Copenhagen – not all depressing. ..UNFCCC RIP I have not been...
View ArticleWomen in Macro-economics
It is nice to see women taking their place in the world of finance and mocro-economics. Elinor Ostrom got the Nobel Prize and Cantwell and Collins leading the charge for sensible emissiosn control in...
View ArticleCollapse Competition
Richard Heinburg writes on the subject of which super state will collapse first, the US or China?. Not to be read if you are prone to depression (hat tip to Club Orlov). Silly me. Here I had thought...
View ArticleNot as Good as a Trillion Euro Distribution…
The slow motion crash that is the eurozone has finally become so obvious that it cannot be ignored. Joseph Stiglitz states the obvious that everybody surely must have been thinking. I like Marshall...
View ArticleThere is NO Going Back
Galbraith the Younger explains in New Deal 2.0 how his father understood the Great Depression and how it is different now in some ways but in others very similar. He is one of the very few leading...
View ArticleThe Commons: A Call to Claim Your Rightful Inheritance
Copied here in full as it says so much and nothing should be missed. “One World in which Many Worlds Fit.” from OnTheCommons.org — Everything The following remarks were delivered by Silke Helfrich of...
View ArticleNama chickens coming home to roost
Smart Taxes warned against the rosy picture the government painted for its Nama bailout plan. It depended on manic phase optimistic scenarios re recoverability of loans and property price recovery...
View ArticleRobin-Hood-Tax
The Guardian has the best description of this very desirable tax based on the Tobin Tax idea. Bill Nighy looks wonderfully shifty in the famous video. Joseph Stiglitz, professor of economics at...
View ArticleThe New ‘Marshal’ Plan for Europe
The plan of which I write is of course, Marshal Auerbach’s proposal that one trillion euro should be distributed by the ECB on a per capita basis to the Eurozone governments to reduce their debt...
View ArticleWHY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT CAN AFFORD TO REBUILD: Can Ireland pull the same...
Now that we own all the Irish banks, can we do what the Japaneses do and simply give ourselves credit? Not so easy for the Irish as unlike Japan, we do not issue our own currency. But surely there is...
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