Posts Tagged ‘California’

• Readings: Tuesday 9 March 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, March 9th, 2010 at 11:58 pm, Comments: 0

  Peak Demand Yes, But Not the Nice Kind: Chris Nelder, GetRealList.com.
  Can California Declare Bankruptcy?: Christopher Beam, Slate.
  Exxon Lowers Bar, Buys Assets Once Seen Unattractive: Edward Klump, Bloomberg.com.
  Requiem for a Dying City: Damien Perrotin, Energy Bulletin.
  What’s Wrong with Venture Capital?: James Surowiecki, MIT Technology Review.
  Losses Wipe Out Equity of Mexico’s Pemex: Robert Campbell, Reuters.
  California Job Losses [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 02 February 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, February 2nd, 2010 at 8:19 pm, Comments: 0

  L.A. Takes a Shine to Another Owens Valley Product – Sun (solar): Phil Willon, The Los Angeles Times.
  PHOTOS: Taking a shine to the Owens Valley’s sun:  Brian Vander Brug, The Los Angeles Times.
  Paying Zero for Public Services (Zero Rupee Notes):Fumiko Nagano, blogs.worldbank.org.

  The Global Debt Bomb: Daniel Fisher, Forbes.com.

  On Proliferation, Climate, and Oil: Solving for Pattern: [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 15 January 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, January 15th, 2010 at 1:23 pm, Comments: 0

  India’s food prices jump by 20%: Robert Young reports, BBC World Service Radio.
  The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Dongping Han – via the Rediscovering China’s Cultural Revolution symposium at UC Berkeley, KPFA Guns and Butter Radio Show.

  Wall Street Revalued: interview with Andrew Smithers, Financial Sense Newshour.
  California’s Budget Crisis – Harbinger for the rest of the nation?: Roundtable [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 24 November 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, November 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am, Comments: 0

  What Peak Oil Can Do for Climate Change: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  Capital Journal – California’s Budget is Going to Be Dreadful: George Skelton, The Los Angeles Times.
  Early Data Suggest Suicides are Rising: Murray and McKay, The Wall Street Journal.
  Shifting the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy by 2030 – Here Are The Numbers – Jacobson [...]

• Cross-Posting: Break Point
  Gregor Macdonald, October 15th, 2009 at 11:45 pm, Comments: 0

  GregorWeekly subscribers might enjoy reading a Gregor.us post from this evening, on the topic of California’s vulnerability to a second oil shock. | see Break Point.

• Readings: Wednesday 16 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am, Comments: 0

  The M-Shaped Recovery: Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review.
  States of shock: The Automatic Earth.
  Welcome to Earth’s ‘New’ Ocean: The Arctic: Andrew C. Revkin, NYT Dot Earth.
  Living With Coal: David G. Victor and Richard K. Morse, The Boston Review.
  California’s cash coming in below guesses: Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times.
  The Rise and Fall and Rise of [...]

• Readings: Thursday 10 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 10th, 2009 at 10:21 am, Comments: 0

  Jett Rink’s Speedboat: gregor.us
  China Alarmed by US Money Printing: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for the Telegraph (UK).
  Mexico’s Fading Oil Output Crimps Exports: David Luhnow for the Wall Street Journal.
  Real Estate – The 800,000 Pound Deflationary Gorilla: Adam Brochert via Safehaven.com
  Candidate in a State of Dystopia: George Will for the Washington Post