Posts Tagged ‘America’
Two original thoughts
As the title says, I have two original thoughts on this. One will come as no surprise to people who read this blog, the other, I think is new. #1: Banks and the Housing Bubble… So, the biggest problem underlying everything else right now is the bursting housing bubble. We’ve got way too much housing [...]
The end of arrogance?
Fascinating article from Germany, it’s a long read, but the outlook echoes what’s happening on the street. The banking crisis is upending American dominance of the financial markets and world politics. The industrialized countries are sliding into recession, the era of turbo-capitalism is coming to an end and US military might is ebbing. We’re drifting [...]
Food for thought, September 25
First, this was great: “My Car is More Important Than My Body” for a LOT of people, their cars are their livelihoods. It gets them to work, to school, to the store, and it hauls around other people and things. It get them from point A, to point B and C and D and back [...]
Falling behind
Great column on energy efficiency in other parts of the world today, courtesy Thomas Friedman. Here is the key quote: Unlike America, Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way [...]