Does this mean that popular democracies and capitalists are adversaries? Looks like capitalists aren't in favor of what a popular democracy is likely to think about capitalist's methods and objectives, huh?
I guess financial markets pretty much fear the impacts of popular democratic ...
.... this is a perfect example . Major of NYC Bloomberg is a well recognized wall street name, not to mention his political notoreity. He has therefore a relatively much larger podium from which to spread and extend propoganda. That's how propoganda works .. use the most widely recognized names in ...
This is a note related the innovations preceeding the period known as the Industrial Revolution, which in all cases I've read so far illustrate that innovation was the direct result of having the opportunity for interactions with others, or with their work in the same field of interest.
I've ...
The latest projections extend and deepen the latest wholly & completely avoidable tragedy which has beset the nation, and I daresay even substantial proportions of the globe. It is an inexcusable tragedy among those of the greatest magnitude. It is not the result of natural disasters, ...
If you didn't see this article (link provided by Krugman blog), it discusses the issue related to the rate of productivity improvement and consequent employment reductions.... a theme I've been writing about intermittantly for awhile now.
What I don't see extensively analyzed yet ...
... download the e-book from Amazon, Race Against the Machine,published only two weeks ago or so. It's only $4 and a fast, easy read. Very enlightening about rate of change acceleration. P.S. it was only pubished as e-book version, so I can't loan it to you in that form that I'm aware of, otherwise I would.
.. better than Krugman's, but I think they both miss the main issue.
There are two distinct and separate moral spheres:
- One is based on Calvinist religious doctrine --- which I summarize as "work ethic" morals. This is the basis for most of the early colonial period which became
Over the past month I've been looking for economics studies that relate unemployment rates to increasing rates of productivity growth. I have found no economic academic studies yet that use an economics model or models to show the relationship. The best I've found thus far is Race Against the Machine, published ~...
I just revisted the economics of residential solar pv installations in our neck of the woods (latitude) in CA. Last time I did this was in 2008. I had just written up a long not with all the relevant details, but hit some button on my lap-top and lost it all. So all I'm going do now is give the bottom line....
The predictions made few years ago about effects of global warming have kept coming in a levels of effect beyond those or far earier than previously predicted. I've reported these in past notes.
Today another greater than previously predicted event occurred... this time it's a rate of CO2 emissions ...
There's a lot of media attention given lately to the Solar PV industry ... with most of the content related to how China's using gov't subsidies to allow their solar cell & panel mfg'ers to sell their goods at prices below production costs, overhead, & "normal" profits.
In the US & Europe, gov'...
Have you given any serious in-depth or even a cursory thought to the concept of private property rights, which we all take for granted.. to the point of thinking it's even perhaps some kind of natural law?
To some extent it probably is ---- animals stake out their hunting territory by using scents placed on ...
I really can't believe somebody that is vying to be a serious presidential candidate for the US is saying such things. Talk about total and complete bull-shit, this guy's got to be the biggest charlaton since Reagan & Bush. The Koch brothers are really running a show this time.
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The August 2007 paper by Krugmann discusses the reasons for an expected decline in US dollar's value due to increasing US current account deficits. To answer the question of whether this decline in dollar value will create a dollar crises he refers to two scenarios... one which assumes investors realize that the current ...
Roubini's doom & gloom was all about a reduction in US GDP growth rates during 2006, worst case a recession, nothing at all about a credit crises or depression level banking crises. As 2006 exited without his predicted recession, he shifted it to occuring in latter half of 2007... but still nothing about a credit ...
Here's Roubini's Sept 7, 2006 speech to the IMF . In it he outlines why a recession is coming... the housing bust being one reason, the other being oil ...
Roubini's "predictions" of a housing crises were widely reported on Aug 23, 2006 by several financial publications... and these were all based on his Aug 23, 2006...
I was curious about how much the US Treasury Yields have changed since the beginning of this year. Yields change inversely with th purchase price so when yields drop, purchase Price increases... meaning Demand for US Treasury notes have Increased.
Increases or decreases in Treasury ...
It's a $7 download to Kindle or Kindle app.... and worth the read... not a long book. It's written for the layman, so much of the explanations given for why automation occurs, it's effects, and potentials on economic future as well as some of the economic discussion is quickly scanned to obtain that content.
It's abundantly clear that leading economists, of both the right & left pursuasions, spend most of their professional (econ conferences, professional speeches to economic forums) and public (blogging) time on the immediate here & now economic issues including political aspects which (of course) are expected to have a ...
In production of goods and services labor has dominated the means, with tech advances (flying shuttle to computers), always improving labor's productivity, providing more goods & services for lower relative costs, increasing therefore the ability of labor to consume those goods at increasing rates, fueling, by profits, ...
Military Spending
For some as yet unknown and yet unjustified reasoning, the US's military spending in 2010 remains equal to the next top 18 nations' military spending combined!
We spend 6x that of China (which is #2 in military spending), 12x the UK(#3), 13x Russia(#4), ...