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On The Perfect Energy

Green, Renewable, and Safe

by erathoniel on 5/2/2008 11:58:40 PM

Nuclear fusion is our best bet for perfect energy. It is not only green and renewable, but it's safe. It's danger levels are low, its payouts are huge, and it's fuel supply is almost limitless. It's the only energy that nobody loses […]

Butter Shortage!

Where's the blame getting spread around?

by momijiki on 5/1/2008 7:32:23 PM

One of the big news items the last couple of days has been about a butter shortage in Japan. It seems like a really trivial story. I mean, really. Not enough butter to go around? But the cost of butter is not only on the rise in […]

China and Europe vs. the US

What does the EU's and China's rise spell for the US?

by singrdave on 1/31/2008 2:59:14 PM

If by 2050 the Chinese and European economies are indeed larger than America’s, then this is no need for concern. The United States (US) has been the recipient of decades of economic supremacy, as it escaped World War II (WWII) with its economy largely […]

Are the rich just greedy pigs?

More battles at the political fringes

by Draginol on 9/25/2007 9:27:55 PM

Over at a fringe left-wing site, a discussion on economics recently came up. It was very interesting to see some of the viewpoints on how wealth is created and used and so forth. Here are some of the highlights: Income has nothing to do with it […]

Best. Economy. Ever.

The global economy is humming right along

by singrdave on 8/30/2007 5:07:57 PM

It's incredible that there are doomsayers in the world and in the ranks of JoeUser. Because according to US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, "This is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime." The global economy is […]

Buy American Fruit

Help Keep America Food-Secure

by jdkeepsmiling on 8/20/2007 10:19:52 PM

Quite a while ago, I watched a movie about an apple farmer in Washington titled "Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the new American Farmer." This was an excellent documentary that pointed out the plight that many apple farmers face from new stiff […]

30 cents a day and two cups of rice

by foreverserenity on 1/22/2007 2:48:20 AM

What a person makes sifting for diamonds. It's called blood diamonds because of the civil war that ensued in Sierra Leone and the deaths or maiming of it's people. I’m watching Current TV where there’s a program about this. The journalist is […]

Major Players in the Next 20 Years

Who will it be? China? India? Somebody else?

by singrdave on 11/13/2006 4:54:57 PM

According to the National Intelligence Council 2020 Mapping the Global Future report, what are the major changes that may occur in the international landscape—and who might the major players and states be? The overarching challenge for the next 14 […]

IMF Inherently Unfair?

Do all nations have equal voice?

by singrdave on 10/21/2006 9:37:45 PM

Another great oversight in the supposedly democratic, fair, and even-handed liberal free trade environment is the IMF voting procedure. The IMF has doled out its voting privileges to each participant nation based on its donations to the IMF. […]

Can Markets Be Moral?

Are they inherently moral or must ethics be imposed from outside?

by singrdave on 10/15/2006 7:55:39 PM

Can markets really be "moral?" Can they function with morals or must ethics be imposed from outside? Discuss. […]

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