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Record profits as corporations chuck US workers
US companies are still moving jobs to China. But peak oil could bring them back. Photo: Sterlic via Flickr. The latest job numbers were dismal, as US real unemployment remains near 20%. America now has...
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Economy so old that it’s new
Documentaries that cover peak oil or deal with resource depletion tend to be downers on the whole, offering few pleasures beyond the snarky joy of Schadenfreude. Even with a few cheery bits thrown in...
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Closing factories is nothing to be proud of
Business gurus say that the US and Europe should let their factories go and embrace the high-tech economy. But that's a losing strategy today and a dangerous path for an economy after peak oil. Photo:...
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Can cowardly world leaders dodge Occupy Wall Street scorn?
Facing massive protests planned in Chicago, the G-8 economic summit is retreating to Camp David. Occupy Wall Street is going to hit them anyway. Image: Adbusters. The text below was reposted from...
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How Greece threatens you and how going local offers the only refuge
Banksters are now plundering Greece. How can turmoil in this tiny overseas economy affect your personal finances? Photo: Aster-oid via Flickr. For months now our stocks have gone up and down due to...
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The dark side of the “Green Economy”
Who doesn’t want to go green? Photo: Ben Powless/Yes! Magazine. Everywhere you look these days, things are turning green. In Chiapas, Mexico, indigenous farmers are being paid to protect the last vast...
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Letter from India: It takes a village
Skyscrapers and business parks are popping up all over India. Photo: Shayon Ghosh. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply...
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Will 2013 be the year globalization died?
Insourcing American jobs was a theme of the Obama campaign. Peak oilers have predicted it for years. Now it may actually be happening. Photo: Pro President Obama Blog. In The Campaign, last year’s...
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Record profits as corporations chuck US workers
US companies are still moving jobs to China. But peak oil could bring them back. Photo: Sterlic via Flickr. The latest job numbers were dismal, as US real unemployment remains near 20%. America now has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Economy so old that it’s new
Documentaries that cover peak oil or deal with resource depletion tend to be downers on the whole, offering few pleasures beyond the snarky joy of Schadenfreude. Even with a few cheery bits thrown in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Closing factories is nothing to be proud of
Business gurus say that the US and Europe should let their factories go and embrace the high-tech economy. But that's a losing strategy today and a dangerous path for an economy after peak oil. Photo:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can cowardly world leaders dodge Occupy Wall Street scorn?
Facing massive protests planned in Chicago, the G-8 economic summit is retreating to Camp David. Occupy Wall Street is going to hit them anyway. Image: Adbusters. The text below was reposted from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Greece threatens you and how going local offers the only refuge
Banksters are now plundering Greece. How can turmoil in this tiny overseas economy affect your personal finances? Photo: Aster-oid via Flickr. For months now our stocks have gone up and down due to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The dark side of the “Green Economy”
Who doesn’t want to go green? Photo: Ben Powless/Yes! Magazine. Everywhere you look these days, things are turning green. In Chiapas, Mexico, indigenous farmers are being paid to protect the last vast...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letter from India: It takes a village
Skyscrapers and business parks are popping up all over India. Photo: Shayon Ghosh. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will 2013 be the year globalization died?
Insourcing American jobs was a theme of the Obama campaign. Peak oilers have predicted it for years. Now it may actually be happening. Photo: Pro President Obama Blog. In The Campaign, last year’s...
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