Excellent article --- I think it nicely summarizes the realities, both scientifically and economically.
In short, I wouldn't be inclined to hold my breath looking for solar energy sources (or battery based EV's) to reach an economically competitive level with coal. It may happen..... eventually, but ...
I saw a Reuters article today about China's Internal Security Budget surpassing its Defense Budget, so I wondered what the US Internal Security budget was ... i.e. Homeland Security in relation to US's Defense ...
Interesting couple of blog articles by Krugman related to future of employment. In essense the articles question the need for miuch in the way of upper levels of education since a large ...
... promoted & sold by those who don't need it.
Consider that the propoganda "equal opportunity" is popularly promoted to mean that everybody in the US has an equal opportunity to achieve something ... like the upper 1% (or 0.1%, or 0.01%) of incomes and wealth. Or is it promoted to mean everybody in the US has ...
Altthough I enjoy DB's economic insights and agree with 95% of what he writes, in this article his ...
One of these days the Japanese Island(s) will cease to be much more than a few craigy peaks poking above the Pacific... Sea of Japan will be no more as the Pacific will butt up against China without the Island of Japan between it and the Pacific.
While I say this though, the West Coast of the US ...
What would happen IF:
1) US citizen or US registered corporation were taxed heavily on
capital invested / sent outside US?
2) US citizen or US registered corporation foreign earned income
(whether brought back into US or not) were heavily taxed?
3) Non-citizen or foreign owned/controlled corporations / business's
capital ...
1) US citizen or US registered corporation were taxed heavily on
capital invested / sent outside US?
2) US citizen or US registered corporation foreign earned income
(whether brought back into US or not) were heavily taxed?
3) Non-citizen or foreign owned/controlled corporations / business's
capital ...
Latest problem with Japan's tsunami related nuclear reactors will have
negative consequences for nuclear electrical energy expansion in US.
Read this as meaning COAL... aka C02 production will certainly now
increase by greater magnitude than the alternative use of nuclear
power plants would have created going forward in time.
...
negative consequences for nuclear electrical energy expansion in US.
Read this as meaning COAL... aka C02 production will certainly now
increase by greater magnitude than the alternative use of nuclear
power plants would have created going forward in time.
...
IAS 107 Lecture: Wrong Theories of the Recession
J. Bradford DeLong U.C. Berkeley IAS107 Lecture Notes...
I've always wondered what the energy cost equivalents were for gas (therms) and elecrical (kWhrs) and since PG&E installed the wireless new meters at our place, AND our 1st gas bill since the installation went to triple it's ever prior high in the nearly 35 years we've lived here, I got even more curious.
... The following chart from EPI-org is quite thought provoking. It says productivity grown at 3x the rate of compensation....
The relation pretty much follows the conservative belt states and liberal states... not surprisingly (to me at least).
I'm sure you've seen this already, but if not: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?ref=generalelectriccompany
GE's not alone either... ...
GE's not alone either... ...
I'm referring to Wisconsin GOP request for e-mails sent by a State University political history prof using his .edu e-mail address. The request came less than 2 days after the prof wrote an op-ed published by the NYT where-in he "...drew a carefully delimited analogy between what is happening in Wisconsin today and the ...
The consequence of economic cycle downturns falls on the vast bulk of a nation's the population, while the upturns benefit the already wealth even more. The question therefore is why do we tolerate the economic system that allows this perpetual condition to persist? The raw answer is that it's tolerated because it's ...
... never address the underlying issues in the economy in general? They focus only and continuously on the here/now (aftermath) and immediate future. Why for example aren't they focused (or at least frequently discussing) the fundamental issues as they relate to global trade policy going forward, the labor divide between ...