economy
exposing the unconscious corporate value system
Those who control history control the future and in Life Inc. Douglas Rushkoff makes his mark on our future by detailing the history of Corporate Capitalism as the political and economic reality of the modern world. After evolving over hundreds of years into its current form, Corporate Capitalism is now taken so thoroughly for granted that [...]
monetary system in Canada just as crazy as all other fiat currency systems
I’ve been watching through Oh Canada: Our Bought and Sold Out Land, a movie about Canada’s money supply. After viewing similar films about the US monetary supply, I don’t feel like Canadians can really complain that much because there is much worse hoodooing going on down south. However, the film does highlight how little people [...]
Raj Patel on the value of nothing
I really enjoyed this talk by Raj Patel on his recent book, The Value Of Nothing. He explains how our capitalist system of market valuation has done an extremely poor job of representing the true cost of the products brought to us in our daily transactions. For example: a cheeseburger should cost closer to $200 [...]
Financial Sense Newshour on the volcano and hyperinflation
This episode of Financial Sense News Hour covers the impacts of the Iceland volcano and also the possibility of hyperinflation in the United States. Some interesting analysis and definitely worth a listen. Government stats talk starts around the 17′ mark.
a solution to Jevons’ Paradox: thoughts on the first session of the Vancouver De-Growth Session 2010
Last night was the opening session of the Vancouver De-Growth 2010 conference. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of de-growth, its that we can implement policies to provide a managed de-growing of the economy to alleviate strain on society and the environment while avoiding a forced de-growth (in other words, collapse).
beware journalism, peak advertising is like peak oil
In his latest post on Reality Sandwich, Charles Eisenstein draws a connection between advertising and oil that is clever and timely, Don’t get me wrong — I am not proclaiming the demise of advertising (I am an optimistic person, but even my optimism knows limits!). I am suggesting, rather, the advent of Peak Advertising, and [...]
a refreshing take on America’s Empire
John Michael Greer on the world we face headed into the end of the oil age: It’s not considered polite these days to talk about America’s empire, despite the fact that we keep troops in 140 other countries, and the far from unrelated fact that the 5% of Earth’s population that live in the US [...]
consequences of a solar boom
The most irritating thing about working solar energy sources is the bubble mentality driving most of the investment. One town in Spain has felt the pain of being caught up in such a situation, Soon, Puertollano, home to the Museum of the Mining Industry, had two enormous solar power plants, factories making solar panels and [...]
last man standing
This month’s Museletter from Richard Heinberg at the Post Carbon Institute provides a valuable synopsis of where China and the US are at in avoiding an increasingly inevitable societal collapse, Increasingly I am forced to conclude that the object of the game that world leaders are actually playing is not to avoid collapse; it’s simply [...]
the Shock Doctrine
Just discovered that Naomi Klein has turned the concept of her book The Shock Doctrine (2008, Picador). This the most important 6 and a half minutes you can use today because it covers the entire concept behind the formation of our modern “free market” system,
