Pam Martens went through at least two versions of the bailout proposal, and these are some things she found. http://www.counterpunch.org/martens09302008.html ...
The "investment" angle is a joke. Bernanke has said that the government would buy the sour bank assets at their book value [high price] rather than their...
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I wonder if he consulted with his brilliant, longtime partner, Charlie Munger, on this purchase. Reportedly, Buffett bought the $5 billion stake in...
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By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Investments betting that commodity futures prices will move higher have drastically diminished over the past...
The subsidiary sells energy efficiency projects that combine energy efficiency tools with solar panels and wind turbines. Reductions in energy costs can help...
A friend of mine has just released a new Peak Oil Film Named Blind Spot The documentary on Peak Oil debuts at the Woodstock Film Fest next weekend The film is...
Link TV will air The End of Suburbia several times during the month of October, along with interviews with director Greg Greene and author Richard Heinberg. ...
Mike Whitney only missed one thing, it was the Clinton Administration that set the ball rolling by letting Freddie Mac and Fannie make take on more sub prime...
Concern is growing that the credit market crisis, and the role governments are playing to bail out banks, could have a devastating effect on markets for carbon...
Hope the meeting went well, Dr. Wilson. Heard I was missed. Question: were any of the speakers still talking about Hubbert curves, or were above-ground...
We need to find a way to help insider Wall Street pay for its own problems. You can do that with a 20—.25 percent stock transfer tax, cancellation of...
How the Republicans Can Win (and Deserve It) By STAN GOFF http://www.counterpunch.org/ I sincerely hope that Cindy Sheehan will bludgeon Nancy Pelosi with ...
We need to find a way to help insider Wall Street pay for its own problems. You can do that with a 20—.25 percent stock transfer tax, cancellation of...
... Interesting essay, doomsaying is an ancient activity, todays challenges of energy use, terrorism, corporate greed and recession lead a lot of rope for...
... <SNIP> ... <SNIP> These two example of curmudgeons are typical of specialists who know their fields of expertise backwards.... but have no understanding...
Global auto makers are rushing to challenge the dominance of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid with a slew of ecofriendly vehicles. But Honda Motor Co. is...
http://www.counterpunch.org/zadeh10012008.html A Powerful Trap The Recurring Myth of Peak Oil By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH The Peak Oil theory maintains that world...
This site shows how your Representative voted on the bailout last Monday: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml If you want to tell your Representative...
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Warren E. Buffett is emerging as the banker of choice to the embattled blue-chip companies of American business. Mr. Buffett, the billionaire investor,...
... Westlake ... Oh, there you go...... you find one year's worth of global consumption and everything's alright? LOL!! ... generation ... well sits ... ...
Well, Tom, I have had a look at it and it seems to be a general complaint on how "free energy" is treated (as rubbish!), and a list of the so called "free...
The following is on the site http://www.outsourcecongress.org/outsource/congress/schstaffers.html But I couldn't get it to open as part of a sent message, so...
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He's an economist, which can't be a true science as this essay demonstrates because it fails to recognize one of the most basic scientific laws: The Law of...
Regarding Buffet, whatever he is doing, he is not a guy known for his tendency to thrown money into black holes. The NYT has a selection of readers comments to...
Mike: the answer to your question is "both". You can download all the presentations from the ASPO-USA web site to see. Following Andy Weissman's talk on...
Kempf, in his new book described below, comes to the same conclusion I have come to: that consumption is THE issue -- the one we can really do something ...
Two stalwart forces are still standing between the world's slumping economies and a steep drop in oil prices: China and Saudi Arabia. The credit crisis and...
It's easy to mock little efforts to save the environment: reusing grocery bags, buying a Prius, putting an energy-efficient refrigerator in an energy-eating...
... of ... Ditto. Jay Hanson and many others have proven that "alternative energies" and so-called "innovations" have ZERO possibility of influencing the...