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[The Irish Economy] The Irish Economy » Blog Archive » Green Strategy: There is no economic case for most renters to install low energy light bulbs, let alone to retrofit proper insulation on the building they are renting. Similarly, the landlord has a very weak business case to expend capital on insulation when they do not have to pay the operating costs incurred.

[The Indypendent] The Indypendent » Hope Has Left the Building: Months later, the White House slapped Bolivia with economic penalties, allegedly for not being an enthusiastic drug warrior, but more likely for pursuing an independent agenda. And there is the Honduran coup, which Obama endorsed by .

[Combined Arms Center Blog] Building the Afghan National Security Force: A Holistic ...: This has wreaked havoc on the people in all ways imaginable, devastated the social fabric of Afghan society, and caused an estimated $250 billion in damage to infrastructure (according to the IMF and World Bank). Building Afghan capacity for security must accompany efforts towards good governance and job creation.

[Greater Fool - The Troubled Future of Real Estate] The emotional asset ”” Greater Fool - The Troubled Future of Real ...: The Klondike 1896-1899. The Price of oil, if it gets past $100 and breaks $110-120, watch out, all the stimuls money, green shoots and economic recovery will come to a grinding halt.

[Engel & Völkers Projects] Why Burgersfort is exploding: To put Swart’s words into perspective: according to the local economic development strategy report for the Greater Tubatse Municipality (under which Burgersfort and Steelpoort fall, with Lydenburg part of the Thaba Chweu municipality), a total of R6,6-billion has been committed for new mine development in the region for the period 2003 to 2008.

[Climate Progress] Energy and Global Warming News for January 8: Obama announces $2.3 ...: This year, Congress will likely pass a national transportation bill””legislation that comes up only about once every six years””through which the nation could reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector and significantly curtail petroleum use, thereby reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The transportation bill also could deliver major economic benefits, including millions of new construction, operations and manufacturing jobs””just what the doctor ordered to fix what’s ailing the U.S. economy.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] Is the Recovery Real? « Jon Taplin's Blog: Is there some motion, other than Brownian, in the area of building sustainable energy infrastructure? Even saying or writing those last three words gives me the creeps, it's so econo-jargony, but stuff like solar panels and windmills and earth-sheltered structures .... And unlike every other generation, this one is starting with crippling levels of debt, much of which was supplied by the very institutions that wrecked the economic prospects of those now holding the bag. ...

[HorsesAss.Org] HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » One Washington: The Bush administration’s attempts to argue that the prosecutions were not politically motivated came apart like cardboard in a Tsunami (I think they tried to give two or three non-political reasons, before giving up). Their final defense was “We could fire them if we wanted to, and you can’t prosecute us unless someone squeels”.

[Barbados Underground] Condominiums In Barbados~ A Question Of Balance « Barbados Underground: part of the central reasons why we in Barbados have since the 1960s had a type of national development that continues to wrongly stress that TOURISM must be the major sector of our so-called economy, as opposed to it being, as we in PDC think, a secondary sector. Of course, Dr Francis, is another current reincarnate of those Barbadian academics of the 60s 70s and 80s that argued that “tourism is the best hope for further growth and development of the so-called Barbadian economy”, and very much so on the basis of their fawning and uncritical acceptance of so many destructive, useless and irrelevant Western/Eurocentric theories, paradigms and dogma, as being that intellectual and philosophical standard around which our Barbados society should be developed.

[Politics blog] Britt: Kremen's selection of Nelson will mean sprawl, increased ...: But property investments, whether a new mall, production facility, or residential development inevitably have planning and economic consequences for the local community. Fiscal impact analysis, a tool introduced in the 1970’s, (but not used in Whatcom County), seeks to connect planning and local economics by estimating the public costs to the taxpayer and revenues that result from property investments.

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