Meeting’s tarnished reputation

“Solar power surface needed to power whole world, EU, Germany”

Secrecy is good. Particularly if you are a banker

Bank bail-outs to be kept secret | This is Money And what, may I humbly ask, is so special about banks that they are to benefit from this immense generosity. They neither feed us nor water us: they neither clothe us nor house us: they neither educate us nor entertain us: they neither keep us [...]

Hoarding deepens food shortages

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World – April 21, 2008 – The New York Sun MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast [...]

Alternative energy: the next economic boom?

Solar Power From Africa: The Best Investment the EU Can Make | SolveClimate.com Its architects claim they can build a supergrid of concentrating solar thermal plants (CSP) that can meet most of Europe’s current electricity needs by using just 0.3 percent of the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – and at [...]

When the going gets tough…you are on your own!

photo credit: Busko It is interesting to see how the social dynamics between individuals are mirrored exactly in the same way in a global and macro-economic scale. Whereas in the good times states cooperate with each other with more flexibility, when the situation worsens, not only each system actor shuts down to outside cooperation, but [...]

Why SEO is better than PPC, explained in lay man terms

Inbound Marketing Strategy: Why SEO Is Better Than PPC Summary: Once you put in all the brilliant hard work to get leads and customers via SEO, it’s much harder for others to take that advantage away. And, even if they do, you’re much less likely to be completely blind-sided by it, as you would be [...]

Biflation?

photo credit: pfala I think what we’re seeing is Biflation. We’re seeing price increases on commodities which we compete for on the world markets (wheat, oil, etc) and price decreases on things which require credit to buy (houses now and eventually cars). To some extent price increases on the necessities of life (like food and [...]

China booming? How long for?

photo credit: neurmadic aesthetic Increasingly polluted, operating in thin margins and with a growing staffing problem, China’s boom may be ready to burst anytime now… The day China’s sweatshop workers rose up in mutiny and looted the plant | the Mail on Sunday At the same time, Western firms, including companies such as Marks & [...]

Flawed economic models and consumer’s attitude changes towards money

Can analysts have been so blind to what was coming, or they simply chose to ignore the facts? Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: US Homeowners Confound Predictions This is not what the models predicted. Part of the explanation for this is related to the continuing shift in social mood toward debt repudiation and the relative [...]