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Seven Years and Still No Basis for Regrowth
From a December 10, 2008 post on the original, independent The Small “r” blog: During a mid-career pursuit of graduate school, I wrote a paper in 2004 investigating Japan’s seemingly endless and...
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Industrial Agriculture Castrating Sustainable Agriculture
For some time I have been at odds with fellow sustainable agriculture supporters over the seemingly singular obsession of the movement with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). GMO crops are hybrids...
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The Irony of Our Focus on Income Inequality
The growing income inequality in the U.S. disturbs most Americans, as it should. Yet the irony is, focusing on materialistic-based equalities leads us away from rectifying income inequalities. In a...
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The Economic Metaphors of ‘All is Lost’
Now that the hub-bub of the Oscars is over, it’s an appropriate time to examine the metaphor-laden film, All is Lost. It was nominated for an Academy Award in sound editing (but ultimately taken by...
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Government Fleecing Shows Public Health System’s Failures
The latest round of fleecing-the-government has cropped up in the Medicare system. What a surprise. These newly minted millionaire doctors shows that the single-payer-system-is-Nirvana meme is nothing...
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Ukraine and the Removal of U.S. Natural Gas Export Restrictions
On March 18, 2014 at 10:17 a.m., over at naked capitalism I commented on the Ukraine situation (and got clocked for it) thus: Well, the U.S. gets a double win here, as eventually Europe will have to...
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US Interstate Highways Will Privatize; More Toll Booths Arriving
After reading Yves Smith’s post on naked capitalism last week regarding the privatization of U.S. infrastructure, and remembering a news item from the Washington Post (link at No. 1, below), I am...
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Best Argument for Mass Surveillance Evolving Into Police State
And I probably broke some law using “Press This”… http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/may-think-nothing-hide-still-breaking-laws-government-spying-discover-use.html
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Rosy Predictions of Declining Natural Gas Prices Ignores the Long Term
In the wake of the recent Russian-Chinese natural gas deal, there have been any number of rosy predictions regarding declining prices. Consider this story over at oilprice.com: “How The Russia-China...
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