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[Whiskey & Gunpowder] Shoveling Money into the Deceased Economy: Everything they've done for four months involving money management and enterprise policy ”” from backstopping hopeless banks, to gaming the bankruptcies of the big car companies, to the bungled efforts to prop up artificially-high house ... James Howard Kunstler is perhaps best known for The Long Emergency, which predicted the financial meltdown and the implications of the peak oil problem. The Geography of Nowhere , about the fiasco of suburbia, is a campus cult classic ...

[The Baseline Scenario] The Economics of CAFE « The Baseline Scenario: I am especially curious about the economic impact of a fuel tax, which funnels the increased vehicle ownership cost to the government, versus the CAFE standards which would funnel the increased cost to car manufactures and employees (part A of the diagram). A fuel tax would also likely increase the vehicle cost over time as manufacturers develop higher MPG vehicles to meet demand.

[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » Public Capital Spending in a ...: The government must resist the temptation to plug holes in the public finances by conducting a firesale of strategically important state-owned assets without a comprehensive analysis of medium to long term implications for competitiveness. While the sale of companies operating in competitive sectors merits consideration, the fact remains that the majority of Ireland’s SOEs are necessarily dominant in their sectors, having been established as monopolies in network industries.

[Green Car Congress] Green Car Congress: Study: Very Long Term Strategy Needed for ...: Ultimately, however, climate stabilization at any level can only be achieved if net global CO2 emissions decline over centuries to the level of persistent natural sinks («1 Pg C yr-1, or just a few % of today’s emissions). On the timescale of centuries to millennia, over which the impacts of today’s CO2 emissions are still being felt, stabilization in the presence of a non-trivial anthropogenic source of CO2 is only possible if this source is balanced by an artificial sink.

[kevinwhope] from Sunny Kelowna, moving skills, economy, swine flu: They are issuing IOUs (as if they haven't done enough already, running up massive debt) to buy up debt instruments in the financial market place, ie borrowing money on the public tab so it can be lent to others at lower rates (how does that work?). By creating demand for these, they are trying to force rates lower - never mind the obvious implications for longer term inflation with all the money being printed, debt incurred. 

[Marketing Profs Daily Fix] China: Implications of an Emerging Middle Class | Marketing Profs ...: While the Chinese government has in the past "strongly encouraged" joint ventures as a way to break into the Chinese market (and realizing there is positives/negatives to that strategy) having a local partner to help navigate the political and socio-economic processes is a must. There are some terrific case studies of Western companies that decided to do things in China according to their pre-defined processes (it worked in other countries, it will work in China...).

[Alton 3 Hp] Single Gauge Co2 Beer Regulator -- alton-3-hp.free-bsd.org: Neuhaus Artificial offer comprehensive range of artificial trees, artificial plants, Yucca palms, Ficus, .The implication is that yesterday' move on CAFE should be our last tweak to fuel economy standards until technology has changed dramatically.

[Technology Review Feed - TR Editors' Blog] Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Death of the Hydrogen ...: Hydrogen is our only option at this point and we will need to understand that our expectations will have to change in order to introduce a viable long term solution. The truth is that we have used 98% of the energy from the gasoline burned so far and this is due to the degree of thermal efficiency of the gasoline engine and that we have been transporting ten times the mass than what we really wanted to move (average gasoline thermal efficiency at low operation = 20% divided by the utility ratio of the vehicle - vehicle weight = 1,600kg / cargo = 160kg). 

Left Blog: There's a false implication there: that anyone ever listened to libertarians in the first place. Most libertarians I know have criticized the Bush administration's use of Keynesian deficit spending to stimulate the economy. Most libertarians I know attribute much of the current crisis to mismanagement at the Fed, leading to artificially low interest rates, in turn leading to artificially high housing demand, thus leading to the bubble, which popped. ...

[Taras Kuzio's Blog] Taras Kuzio's Blog » Blog Archive » Prison, revolution and ...: A leader of the young communist league, the Komsomol, she took the route of many other colleagues in starting small businesses by privatising Komsomol assets, in her case in her native Dnipropetrovsk, a steel town in eastern Ukraine. She and her husband (she married at 18) also copied videos in their living room and rented them out or sold them.

[Recent Comments on Mises Economics Blog] "The Yield from Money Held" Reconsidered - Mises Economics Blog: I'm grateful to Larry White for referring to my article "The Yield from Money Held Revisited." I was frankly shocked to see Hoppe attribute to me views precisely opposite those I had put forward at length in an article published years ago, in what was then a prominent "Austrian" publication, and later reprinted in Peter Boettke's "Market Process" compilation. In point of fact his "complaint" against me and Larry repeats my own complaint against what was (ca.

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Biofuels; Climate Change; and ...: Weisman explained that, “Congress is debating proposals to give away to utilities and other businesses the pollution credits that would be created by a cap-and-trade system. Such a system is designed to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by instituting caps, and requiring that businesses buy permits to pollute that they can trade like commodities.

[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » The second draft of history: @Matt: you are absolutely right, there was a lot of misallocation: too many people working in finance everywhere, too much construction in places like Ireland, probably too many people producing the wrong sorts of cars, and so on. Reallocating those resources will be costly in the short run, even if it will be beneficial in the long run.

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