Since 9/11 the Fed has been injecting significant liquidity into the market, driving down interest rates and the dollar. Both increase commodities as an attractive asset, partly because most commodities are traded in US dollars. [...]
China seeks to solve the risk and high cost of nuclear energy
Thorium advocates have for decades urged Western countries not to throw the nuclear baby out with the radioactive bath water just because current weapons based technology has proved hazardous. It seems China is the only one listening. [...]
Job Security
Emotional and educational support, connections, healthful relationships, and positive environments are all methods we employ to care for our children, especially when they are struggling. The pace of the world demands we look at our education and our organization’s relationships with their employees and our support structures for displaced workers in a different light. The present course isn't helping, and costs too much. [...]
Free Trade is Good. Protectionism is bad.
The Club for Growth sponsored 1,028 economists from all 50 states to pressure congress not to enact protectionist policies against China. Congressional Democrats have been rattling their sabers for months now with any number of restrictive trade policies. If enacted, what would be the outcome? [...]
Peak oil? Not.
The ongoing message is that we're running out of oil, and that it's dirty, and scary and bad for the environment. Never mind that our air is some 70% cleaner than it was say, 30 years ago. [...]
