David Bollier, author of the recently released Viral Spiral, on yet another aspect of the privateers’ frontiers: A few years ago, Russia sent a submersible craft 4 kilometers beneath the North Pole to plant a titanium flag on the floor of the ocean. Its purpose: to stake a claim on the continental shelf where there may exist oil, gas and … Read More
FHOG Goes International ;(
photo credit: Hamed Parham The First Home Owners Grant nightmare continues, with elements of it borrowed and extended by the American HUD. Young US home dreamers will suffer like we have: Two new applications of the federal tax incentive for first time homebuyers – allowing them to use the $8,000 credit for down payments and on land contracts -will allow … Read More
The Economics of War – Cutting Natural Resources Out of the Equation
photo credit: gruntzooki David Smiley – Research Associate in the Department of Economics at Macquarie Uni In a previous article we tracked the failures of massive international efforts to reduce four global problems: poverty, human rights abuses, the degradation of the planet, and war. We asserted that these four problems cannot be solved separately and that none can be solved … Read More
Crisis in Democracy Looming
photo credit: unusualimage Sometime soon someone will write an article on how lobbyocracy has subverted the public’s interest at the expense of the community’s in a staggering number of projects. One just has to have read John Perkin’s Economic Hitman to understand that the major projects announced in Victoria (Channel deepening, North- South pipeline, De-Sal plant plus roads and new … Read More
The End of Charity
Renegade Economist Podcast 90 Subscribe to the podcast As aired live on Wed May 20th, 2009 via radio on the almighty www.3cr.org.au The End of Charity: Author & World Economic Forum insider Nic Francis talks about how we can shape market forces to reflect the moral values we need in a climate altered world. Listen to the 12 minute interview: … Read More