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Cornel West: Intellectuals Betrayed the Poor

2011-12-19T05:26:00.000-12:00

Evan Williams TED Talk

2011-12-18T05:14:00.000-12:00

2011-11-23T07:34:00.001-12:00

Todd Moss has an interesting article: What the Solyndra Scandal Can Tell Us about Fixing Our Broken Aid System (Hint: Be More Like OPIC & MCC). He writes: "The clean energy loan program was: (a) tasking civil servants to use public money to create something totally new in a complex highly unpredictable environment; (b) under intense pressure to show rapid results; and (c) highly scrutinized for

Inequality and Economic Development

2011-11-16T09:10:00.001-12:00

One success measure of economic development is job creation. Important, but not the full measure of success. The following TED talk by Richard Wilkinson explains the importance of social equality. Development schemes that create low paid jobs but provide the rentier class with the majority of economic benefits may do as much harm as good.

2011-11-08T03:13:00.001-12:00

As an economic developer, or even more so as an elected official or businessperson, don't you some times wonder why economic development seems to work like witchcraft? Companies move into communities and stay as long as large doses of incentives and tax-breaks are dispensed. Some of these companies receiving public subsidies fail to meet the job creation or hourly wage targets promised in return

The New Economic Development

2011-11-06T05:40:00.000-12:00

The old Economic Development -- big game hunting to bring big employers into an area -- is long dead -- despite the fact that many state, and even local governments, continue to pour money into the effort. One newer approach -- not so new to those who have done it for years -- is "Economic Gardening." More recently another model that frequently involves cloud-sourced work has become a topic of

21st Century Education

2011-10-23T04:52:00.000-12:00

Created by: Online College Classes

Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-10T04:00:00.001-12:00

Beginning with Reagan governments in the US put in place policies that have turned the American middle class into a proto-serf class. Young people burdened with unmanageable student loans and poor career prospects are the fullest victims of these disastrous policies. The Single best Occupy Wall Street video:

A Conversation with Robin Li

2011-08-21T13:04:00.001-12:00

Will The Big Losers Take All?

2011-08-14T03:59:00.001-12:00

At the New York Times Thomas Friedman, in his usually modest way, has an article titled A Theory of Everything in which he discusses how widening income gaps are fueling resentments which are leading to events such as the British riots and Arab Spring worldwide. In a WSJ interview Nouriel Roubini also argues that the social uprisings in Egypt and other countries in the middle east, in Greece,

Kenya's Open Data

2011-08-07T03:05:00.001-12:00

Kenya takes a big step towards transparency with its Open Data website that makes national census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings, public service locations and much more available to everyone. Raw data, maps, interactive charts and tables.

Joe Bageant sings Hemingway's Whisky

2011-07-13T13:15:00.001-12:00

On The Internet Every Sixty Seconds

2011-06-27T02:25:00.002-12:00

Infographic by - Shanghai Web Designers

Kathy Bardswick: Adaptation to Climate Change

2011-06-13T00:12:00.001-12:00

Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO of The Co-operators Group, one of the largest Canadian-owned multi-product insurance companies and Board Chair of the Institute of Catastrophic Loss Reduction talking about socially responsible investing and adaptation to climate change. If I lived in Canada, I would purchase my insurance from this company, and probably use them for investment planning too.

The Social Media Revolution Continues

2011-06-12T04:58:00.000-12:00

Mobile Specific Ads

2011-05-31T22:50:00.001-12:00

If you are a bricks and mortar b to c establishment using the Google advertizing platform, it's time to begin creating mobile specific ads using Google AdWords. Here is how:

Does Gold History Repeat?

2011-05-22T04:45:00.000-12:00

Maybe it is not too late to buy gold. Then again, chaotic systems are unpredictable. Hopefully we have learned that even though markets can be gamed, they remain chaotic systems. Visit thumbcharts.com for some more interactive gold bubble charts.

Biggest Threat To Economy?

2011-05-21T04:40:00.000-12:00

As fun to watch and as scientifically interesting as the Space Shuttle and Space Station are, one task is of overriding importance: understanding and learning to predict solar storms. The socioeconomic impacts of future extreme space weather events will be profound. The complex and interrelated infrastructures of modern society will be massively impacted from

The Real US Unemployment Rate

2011-05-19T11:52:00.003-12:00

From John Williams' great website: Shadow Government Statistics, Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting, a great source for US data analysis to a great extent free of financial market and political hype. Important because good decisions are based on good information.

The Cooperation Economy

2011-05-18T04:52:00.000-12:00

Working together rather than competitively may hold the promise for future advancement in many areas. Cooperation can be used for bad as well as good purposes. Extremely important to shape its use wisely.

Amazon Affiliate Program

2011-05-14T13:33:00.002-12:00

On the left you will find an Amazon Affiliate Program search box. I do not expect to make much (any) money with it. I do want to test it for possible recommendation to clients. So if you are thinking of buying something from Amazon, use this search box to find the item and I may be paid a referral fee, which I will donate to a local group.

Porting Content To Mobile

2011-05-04T03:55:00.002-12:00

The killer app is the browser. So forget the phone app stores and look at making content available on any client appliance. Here is an interesting approach for smart phones. Onswipe Demo Video from Onswipe on Vimeo.

Need For Corporate Social Responsibility

2011-04-25T05:07:00.000-12:00

Spam Doesn't Work So Stop Already

2011-04-11T03:13:00.001-12:00

A long time ago in a far away marketing era when email was the new thing, those dispensing marketing advice would suggest that business people keep in contact with their actual and potential clients/customers fairly often and on a regular basis by sending periodic email with interesting tidbits of information, birthday wishes, etc. How strange that now seems to all of us who rely on spam filters

Buy From A Social Media Site - Not

2011-04-10T06:51:00.000-12:00

Wall Street Journal reporters discuss Forrester’s report that Facebook is not a good eCommerce platform.

Ari Derfel - Slow Money

2011-04-08T05:16:00.001-12:00

From TEDxPresidio: Listen to the quote at the beginning and the story at the end.

Displaying Libyan Oil Export Data

2011-03-31T06:39:00.001-12:00

I posted a number of Tweets recently about Canadian and Libyan oil exports and imports. Looking at the numbers in different sources for this information one sees that they show some variation. There are some obvious reasons for this. First individual sources take their data from different years. Also, anybody working with statistics knows that there are built-in lag times. Some numbers are

Blueprint For Disaster

2011-03-30T15:49:00.003-12:00

Jarred Diamond talking about what I think is most troubling about the income disparity in the US and world-wide:

It's Earth Hour

2011-03-26T09:06:00.000-12:00

How (Some) Fundamentalists And Salafis Get It Wrong

2011-03-19T05:54:00.000-12:00

Many religious people believe that those closest to the original prophet or teacher are models for succeeding generations, and that later generations should imitate the beliefs, method of worship, mannerisms and morality of the earliest followers. Many Fundamentalist Christians and Muslim Salafis, as well as many fundamentalists of other creeds, religions and doctrines, misunderstand what it

Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - The ghost of Tom Joad

2011-02-26T04:17:00.000-12:00

Maybe we should talk less of "jobs" and more about people's lives.

Websites and Social Media for Economic Development Pt 3 of 3

2011-02-12T17:36:00.000-12:00

The Mobile Cloud Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011) View more presentations from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Forrester forecasts that one third of US online consumers will own a tablet by 2015. Mobility is a must-have. People are using this technology; you should too.

The Industrialization of Information and Knowledge

2011-02-01T08:11:00.000-12:00

Just as industrialization appropriated craft skills by breaking a whole process into its smallest components and mechanizing them on assembly lines, so does the emerging knowledge-communication structure fragment the creation of information and knowledge, and assembly the results into Twitter feeds and news aggregation sites, Quora posts and YouTube videos.

How Cold is Cold?

2011-01-26T15:22:00.001-12:00

COLD IS A RELATIVE THING 65 above zero: Floridians turn on the heat. People in Upstate New York plant gardens. 60 above zero: Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in Upstate New York sunbathe. 50 above zero: Italian & English cars won't start. People in Upstate New York drive with the windows down. 40 above zero: Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, and wool hats.

Hug Your Elected Representative Today

2011-01-22T05:16:00.000-12:00

We are quick to criticize our elected officials, but how often do we support them to help them do the best for our country (in my case the USA)? The article Giffords heard cheers leaving Arizona made me think how good all the outpouring of support from her constituents must make Gabrielle Giffords feel. In whatever capacity she is able to return to serving these people don't you think her

New Technologies and Small Businesses

2011-01-20T02:36:00.000-12:00

Small and medium size businesses cannot afford to ignore disruptive technologies. Get a website; get a Facebook page; look at mobile NOW.

Taxes Bring Prosperity

2011-01-15T16:47:00.000-12:00

Websites and Social Media for Economic Development Pt 2 of 3

2011-01-11T13:48:00.015-12:00

Via: Online Schools The info-graphic above presents the data on FaceBook use; many economic development organizations and chambers of commerce are effectively using this channel to reach their communities and potential clients. While this video is of a B-to-C use of social media, it illustrates some of the basics such as listening, getting to know the customer, as well as treating the

How An Entrepreneur Thinks

2011-01-05T04:04:00.000-12:00

Great interview with Jack Dorsey, creator and Chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square.

Websites and Social Media for Economic Development, Pt 1 of 3

2011-01-04T08:20:00.006-12:00

Douglas Idugboe calls search engines + social media a "lethal combo". Oreo drives all their traffic to their Facebook page, not their website. CocaCola's website has 348,00 unique views a month, but they have over 21 million Facebook fans. Social media is big, though businesses still need a website for the best search results. How might this affect economic development organizations? Should

Skip Bricks and Mortar College

2010-11-18T03:18:00.000-12:00

If you are old enough, you will remember publicly funded US higher education as it was meant to be. Publicly funded universities like the University of California Berkeley helped make the US a world leader and gave the country the best college-university system in the world. With token registration fees these schools provided affordable higher education for most Americans. That has changed

When The Pledge Of Allegiance Is Not Patriotic

2010-10-29T09:40:00.003-12:00

Normally the US Pledge of Allegiance is considered a patriotic act, but not when it is used to disrupt a program intended to inform voters and is further used to create a viral video designed to discredit a non-partisan patriotic organization - the US League of Women Voters (LWV). We've seen this before with disruption of Congressional Town Halls and the blown-out-of-proportion attacks on ACORN.

The Corporate Age OR...

2010-10-03T04:56:00.000-12:00

We can look at the increased wealth of financial institutions, the loss of wealth among ordinary people, and the increase in government deficit and debt as marking the tipping point when control of the world's government power and social structure finally moved from nation states to corporations. Just as dukedoms continued to exist as vassals of kingdoms so national governments will continue

Do I Have Economic Bipolar Disorder?

2010-09-15T02:05:00.000-12:00

Watching the disintegration of middle class capitalism has been depressing. Time to start moving toward a better future.

Here is the Problem

2010-09-07T14:05:00.000-12:00

"The vote is more evenly distributed than wealth and income. Thus, one would expect the tenor of democratic policymaking to be redistributive and so, indeed, it is. Those with wealth and income to protect will then make political power expensive to acquire and encourage potential supporters to focus on common enemies (inside and outside the country) and on cultural values. The more unequal

No Choice + Nowhere = Success

2010-08-19T07:55:00.000-12:00

As I stood in the parking lot eating my dish of ice-cream a woman walking past me said: "Oh chocolate. It is a religious experience." She was referring to the experience of eating Donnelly's soft-serve ice-cream. Other people have said it is the best soft serve they have ever had. Donnelly’s really is in the middle of nowhere, at the intersection of Routes 86 and 186, outside Saranac Lake.

From Poverty to Power

2010-08-19T02:41:00.002-12:00

Bit more to the story than shown here.

Do Adertsorials Tarnish Small Town News?

2010-08-18T01:48:00.003-12:00

Recently our local newspaper, the Malone Telegram, has run two front page articles on an outfit called the "Ohio Valley Refinery & Roadshow". Coincidentally this same "Roadshow" has run full page advertorials in several editions of the paper. Did the articles in the Malone Telegram question practices of the Ohio Valley Refinery as an article in the Southeast Texas paper The Examiner did? Did it

Mapping Unemployment in USA

2010-08-03T05:33:00.000-12:00

Does Money Motivate?

2010-07-27T03:31:00.000-12:00

"Pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table."

Financial Sector of Economy Needs To Shrink

2010-07-19T08:13:00.004-12:00

A few years ago as someone working in rural economic development I bemoaned the fact that the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector of rural economies was not growing like it was in urban centers. I wondered how we could increase that sector locally. I should have wondered where that growth was coming from. According to Jeremy Grantham in his current Summer Essays: "3% of GDP that was

Fracked Water Coming To A Tap Near You Soon?

2010-07-09T08:20:00.005-12:00

Health and farmland threatened by natural gas drilling.

The USA's Real Economic Problem

2010-06-26T02:33:00.000-12:00

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities income gaps between very rich and everyone else more than tripled in the last three decades. Basing the report on new data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO,) the report paints a stark picture of inequality in the US. Why should we care? Because a democracy demands that all citizens receive equal treatment and opportunity. That

Who Owns The Shareholders?

2010-06-14T04:37:00.000-12:00

"In a free-enterprise, private-property system, a corporate executive is an employee of the owners of the business. He has direct responsibility to his employers. That responsibility is to conduct the business in accordance with their desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society..." - Milton Friedman Reading this you can

The Dollar Debased

2010-06-04T02:04:00.006-12:00

The average person probably thinks of the US dollar as a paper currency issued by the Government and printed by the Treasury. I would bet that few realize that the majority of the money in the US is just 'bank money', 0's and 1's in some ledger accounts somewhere. Not thinking of this 'bank money' as the currency of the US, well actually the world, is an impediment to creating a realistic US

IEDC Quality Jobs

2010-04-30T03:18:00.000-12:00

Due to challenges of the new economy the report says "...formerly well defined and relatively straightforward profession of economic development has become more complex and unpredictable." Actually, economic development done well has always been a complex process with unpredictable outcomes. Glad to see IEDC finally gets that, and good to see that "jobs, jobs, jobs" is being replaced with a

Climate Science Punked

2010-04-03T02:36:00.000-12:00

Why is it that global warming deniers seem to be winning the political debate in the US when thousands of climate scientists support the thesis that the climate is warming and that human activity is contributing significantly to that warming? Yes, there are some outlier scientists that reject all or part of this thesis, but they are currently in the scientific minority. So while it makes sense

Concentration of Banking in US

2010-03-24T03:51:00.000-12:00

As reported in Bloomberg Alan Greenspan has said of US mega banks: “If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big,” and should be broken up. He even went so far as to draw an analogy with the breakup of Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Part of the original argument for taking over the failed mega banks through Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) receivership was that the FDIC could have restructured

Song for Today

2010-03-21T01:29:00.000-12:00

Detroit and Our Future

2010-03-19T02:02:00.001-12:00

Driven by America's love of cars, Detroit was the the US epicenter for change in the 20th century. Now with urban downsizing Detroit may become a leader in urban farming. There are a lot of possible visions for this and watching how they play out in Detroit should be informative for those hoping to reinvent other urban places. A number of issues will need to be addressed as possible senarios

Living With Terrorism

2010-03-13T02:30:00.002-12:00

An AP report on Al-Qaida's strategy highlights a major problem for the United States: attacks there drive people apart. Much of the problem stems from the overheated political debates and can be seen as reflecting a country that in many ways is disintegrating. American's love their football games, particularly when the losing team comes from behind to win. That happens because the losing team is

Elinor Ostrom

2010-03-12T06:28:00.000-12:00

Elinor Ostrom talks about the promise of local-level monitoring for sustainability.

Paulson on Need For Regulation in US

2010-03-07T04:31:00.000-12:00

Former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the need for consolidated financial regulation. Patience: There is a 30 second advertisement before video starts. Full inverview at http://money.cnn.com/video/fortune/2010/03/04/f_sl_mack_paulson.fortune/

The Federal Reserve System

2010-03-03T03:47:00.002-12:00

From the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland an explanation of what the Fed does, including its important job of formulating monetary policy:

Class in America

2010-02-28T04:26:00.000-12:00

Despite what many people in the USA think, social mobility is lower in the US than in some European countries. With high economic inequality the USA fares poorly in a number of areas, from life expectancy to drug use. Class inequality is the underlying problem of the country's economic system. The recent Great Recession where average US citizens watched their home values plummet, and maybe even

The Impossible Hamster

2010-02-25T03:30:00.001-12:00

Development is so much more than mere economic growth.

Park Hosts as Role Models For Boomers

2010-02-21T02:53:00.002-12:00

In parks around the United States volunteers provide services in exchange for free camping spots. And often those spots are for the season so it allows people to stay in a park without any camping time limit, which are usually around two weeks. These camp hosts perform, among many possible duties, interpretive and hospitality services. The New York Times has an article on what they call "

Businesses, Get Ready For Mobile - Now

2010-02-19T06:57:00.006-12:00

Augmented reality and applications such as Google Googles make it easy for people to get information on their phones about all sorts of things. It is already possible for a business to lose a customer to a competitor, even when the customer is standing within feet of the store, just because the business has no good online presence. Watch the following to see how this works, then take a little

Road to Recovery: Jobs

2010-02-17T07:22:00.004-12:00

Organizing for America recently released this chart showing how job loss has slowed. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Original here The chart is not so pretty if you look at total unemployment during the same period, which shows the cumulative job loss. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Job creation lags economic recovery for a number of reasons. As sales recover employers may first ask

The Politics of Rebuilding Haiti

2010-02-11T16:13:00.018-12:00

While too critical of initial aid efforts this news report lays out an important issue in rebuilding Haiti: who benefits? The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sees opportunities for foreign direct investment (FDI); local people want something else.As I watched this I saw in the t-shirt plant Gildan boxes. While other Montreal area textile companies have disappeared, Gilden has not only

Repurposing Corporations

2010-02-11T02:50:00.008-12:00

Economic development professionals are experienced in repurposing buildings and facilities. A corporation moves its assembly plant offshore and the local community is left with an empty building, which may have high ceilings, loading docks, air conditioning, etc. The local Industrial Development Agency (IDA) will try to recruit a new company to the facility. Sometimes they are very successful as

The Long Unwinding

2010-02-09T18:37:00.000-12:00

A poet gets it. Leonard Cohen said: "From my point of view, we're in the midst of a Flood, a Flood of biblical proportions. It's both exterior and interior - at this point it's more devastating on the interior level, but it's leaking into the real world. And this Flood is of such enormous and biblical proportions that I see everybody holding on in their individual way to an orange crate, to a

Assuptions and (Mis)Communication

2010-02-07T05:01:00.011-12:00

Interesting look at how differently cultures can construct their models of the world.

Is it too late to worry?

2010-02-06T17:26:00.001-12:00

Tim Berners-Lee on a Human - Machine Web

2010-02-06T03:35:00.004-12:00

Tim Berners-Lee describing overview of connecting human and machine intelligence at web scale. Good little intro to what the future of the web might be.

Small Businesses Need to Monitor Reputation

2010-02-05T05:06:00.010-12:00

I have a 2002 Subaru WRX that I love, but it has 100K miles. I want to drive it another 100K, so I decided that I had better get serious about maintenance. While I have been careful to get regular service, I can count on one hand the number of times I have actually checked the oil. And I have never bothered to get the wheels retorqued after having the snow tires mounted. My new year resolution is

Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

2010-02-03T04:45:00.004-12:00

"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem

My Health Care in the US

2010-02-01T06:23:00.000-12:00

Got my yearly check-up recently and in subtle (and good) ways it was quite different than one I would have gotten twenty years ago. Often I see a nurse practitioner or physicians assistant, which frees the doctor's time for more complicated situations. This time I saw my doctor Anjni Bhagat, MD. What was remarkable:Bagat's is the most efficiently run practice I have ever seen. She uses electronic

Credit Unions in the USA

2010-01-31T03:42:00.007-12:00

The video below briefly explains the difference between credit unions and for profit banks. In the US credit unions are regulated by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) or by individual state credit union administrations. Credit unions provide a number of benefits for their members, often including lower credit card interest rates.

Yellow Pages in the Cloud

2010-01-29T15:50:00.006-12:00

Here is the future of mobile marketing, and it is not Minority Report style push. Easy, free way for a small businesses to control their web presence on Google. A gotta do: Become a Favorite Place on Google.

Obama Q&A with House Republicans

2010-01-29T13:53:00.001-12:00

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Thinking About Economic Survival

2010-01-28T11:56:00.000-12:00

A study of people making financial choices suggests that expert advice causes the decision-making parts of our brains to shut down. So to determine how best to handle the current financial situation it might be a good idea for each of us to think for ourselves. Since we all have limited time, how best to approach understanding the current economic situation?I began by reading Larry Gonzales' 12

What's in the SOTU for Small Businesses

2010-01-28T09:21:00.031-12:00

In the State of the Union (SOTU) the President said:"...I'm proposing that we take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat. I'm also proposing a new small business tax credit -- one that will go to over 1 million small businesses who hire new workers or raise wages. While we're at it, let's

PolicyMap Widget

2010-01-27T06:47:00.006-12:00

PolicyMap subscribers can create reports about a specific place such as zip code or school district or radius of up to 8 miles around an address. Depending on the subscription level you can use their extensive data sets or upload your own data. With their widget you can embed interactive maps into your web pages:

Continuing Financial Crisis - Must Read

2010-01-16T05:16:00.018-12:00

Reading this you can see why some US citizens are morphing into angry mobs. The testimony of J. Kyle Bass, managing partner at Hayman Advisors LP, before the US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission lays out some very obvious problems with the US banking system and some very basic solutions. But what hope is there that the US Congress, Treasury Department or Federal Reserve will back the necessary

My Twitter Lists

2009-12-14T01:26:00.004-12:00

Have been neglecting my Twitter account, which I hand-curate so over the weekend did some cleanup.Some pleasant surprises in the follower category. But also disappointed to find that some people I thought I was having a very distance conversation with were not following me at all! Using http://friendorfollow.com followed, unfollowed, blocked or added to a list follower/following:Following most

George Soros on Economy

2009-12-07T07:34:00.002-12:00

Worth listenting to: Tom Stewart asks George Soros about the connection between the financial markets and the ordinary economy.

Surowiecki Speaks With E. Warren

2009-11-27T08:46:00.004-12:00

James Surowiecki speaks with Elizabeth Warren about the need for transparency in consumer financing.

US Treasury Secretary Geithner - FAIL

2009-11-08T04:37:00.003-12:00

The US market needs transparency.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Elizabeth Warren

2009-11-07T07:17:00.001-12:00

Markets in the US have been fundamentally changed. Guarantees are infecting entire economic system.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Listening to Yochai Benkler

2009-08-21T05:01:00.007-12:00

If you ponder, as I do, how the world of the 21st century will develop, then study the work of Yochai Benkler as it sheds insight on social sharing and exchange as a modality of economic production."These two features−the global scale of interdependence of human action, and the systematic acceleration of innovation, make contemporary life a bit like a slow motion disaster, in one important

The Blodget - Spitzer Interview

2009-08-18T01:49:00.023-12:00

Great Little Slide Show

2009-08-10T01:48:00.001-12:00

About FutureGovView more presentations from Dominic Campbell.

Making Your Voice Count in the USA

2009-08-04T08:59:00.000-12:00

Much of how the US government functions is determined, not by laws, but by regulations. After the US Congress passes a law and the President signs it, administrative regulations are created to implement the law. And as they always say, the devil is in the details.These regulations are published in the Federal Register by the implementing agency, first as a "notice of proposed rule making" (NPRM),

WSJ on Local Currencies

2009-08-03T10:18:00.001-12:00

Corruption in Lantian China Industrial Park

2009-08-02T02:56:00.003-12:00

Xi'an Lantian Corruption: Threats and Intimidation from Ed Morrison on Vimeo.

Is the US Fed Running a Ponzi Scheme?

2009-07-24T15:39:00.001-12:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

U.S. Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Sector

2009-07-24T04:36:00.003-12:00

(Quadrillion Btu)Source: Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2008

Chris Gibbons on Economic Gardening

2009-07-20T04:27:00.001-12:00

It's About People

2009-06-19T12:45:00.006-12:00

It's not Twitter or CCN that wins in Iran. No matter the immediate outcome, it is people. What strikes me the most about the current Iranian situation is the genuine personal concern of people worldwide for the people of Iran. With the help of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook the citizens of adversarial countries are asking for support from the other, and providing that