For those who wonder why, all of a sudden, the Federal Reserve is starting to talk about deflation, as we have been for MONTHS 😉 ,
look no further than the financial disaster the American pop concert scene confronts this VERY hot summer.
It has been a summer of hard sells and empty seats.
Despite sellouts for Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and some other hot acts,
Non-Americans may wonder why we keep bringing up this whole debate over “net neutrality” –
simply, whether there will be “ONE INTERNET FOR ALL,” or SEVERAL / PAYMENT-RELATED Internet/s –
but it is serious business for everyone the world over, so please try to bear with us,
because – wherever in the world you live – if you use the Internet, which, obviously, if you are reading this, you DO 😉 –
09 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com.
In the wake of the just concluded joint conference call with members of the media by Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon and Eric Schmidt of Google re their proposal for a “tiered” Internet –
The rapid growth of wind farms, whose output is hard to schedule reliably or even predict,
has the nation’s electricity providers scrambling to develop energy storage to ensure stability and improve profits.
As the wind installations multiply, companies have found themselves dumping energy late at night,
adjusting the blades so they do not catch the wind, because there is no demand for the power.
5 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD. Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
While China has been very much in the lead, it has done so following the general post-WWII East Asian strategy –
4 August 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
Last fall, I had what I assumed beforehand would be a relatively simple and inexpensive task:
arranging for the shipping of 40 already packed boxes of books / papers / CDs of my world-famous lectures 😉 from San Francisco, where I used to live, to Singapore, my current home.
When I left in the fall of 2009, a so-called “ghost fleet” had been lying off the coast of Singapore for months –
02 August 2010.
Coal is currently experiencing a phenomenal comeback everywhere.
Demand has grown considerably, making coal the second-most important energy source worldwide, after oil.
Billions of people depend on coal for their electricity supply.
Experts at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris estimate that demand for coal will increase in the next two decades
for more than any other energy source except wind and solar –
In a laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum.
Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes are being tweaked.
Different strains of algae are pitted against one another in survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate the evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains.
The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae,
highly efficient at converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids and oils
Ericsson, the world’s largest maker of telecom network equipment, said an industry-wide shortage of key components
had contributed to an 8 percent decline in sales in the second quarter, echoing concerns raised earlier by Nokia.
Sales at Ericsson, which is based in Stockholm, fell to 48 billion Swedish kroner, or $6.5 billion, from 52 billion kroner a year earlier.
29 July 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com
Honestly, it’s a complete mystery to me.
As we have demonstrated time after time, Obama has done everything to give BIG business, especially, whatever it wanted, depending on corporate middlemen to “get the job done,” no matter what.
