Podcasts
podcasts from this week can help you understand the US debt problem
As the US debt ceiling was quickly raised to $12.4 billion to prevent Federal government shutdown, the only inevitable response will be an even larger increase early next year.
The United States balance sheet is looking like a weaker and weaker attempt at recovery. Some might even make the argument that the US is insolvent, [...]
is technology the biggest ponzi scheme of all?
I’ve been prevented from sharing on the blog recently because of my regimen of finals at University of British Columbia but I had to pass on this talk from Archeologist Sander van Leeuw. Stewart Brand’s The Long Now Foundation is always posting great talks but this one was my favorite on the podcast feed thus far. (Michael [...]
Mysterious Universe is back!
The first podcast I subscribed to when I bought my Creative Zen Vision: M in 2006 was Mysterious Universe. One of the things that got me through the work week was listening to Ben Grundy’s reports on the mysterious and the paranormal.
After his mysterious exit from the podcasting world, pledging to record a final episode and [...]
this is real wealth
A few days ago I mentioned on Twitter that, “money is not wealth, merely a sociological mechanism for distributing wealth” a statement inspired by Charles Eisenstein’s article on the new economy from Reality Sandwich. Quoting from the article,
There is a much deeper crisis at work as well, a crisis in the creation of goods and [...]
Mike Collins talks Charlotte 49er Football with Judy Rose
Much of my undergraduate career was devoted to building student support for football at UNC Charlotte through the Student Government Association and as ‘07-’08 Student Body President.
