Posts Tagged ‘California’

• Watching the Hook in California Employment
  Gregor Macdonald, August 20th, 2010 at 6:55 pm, Comments: 0

  Earlier today I sent out a tweet saying that California, liked the rest of the country, looked poised to start making new highs in unemployment. While there are many ways to talk about job losses, and the unemployment rate is the most common, my preferred data point is the actual size of total employment. As readers [...]

• State of the States: BNN Interview
  Gregor Macdonald, August 11th, 2010 at 11:54 pm, Comments: 0

  The news of the 26 billion dollar aid package for the states was perhaps buried a little under this week’s FED meeting, but in other countries outside the US there may be stronger recognition of the problem the new bailout represents. Last year, in a post at www.gregor.us titled Washington’s Dilemma, I explained that if [...]

• Collapse is a Process
  Gregor Macdonald, July 28th, 2010 at 11:58 pm, Comments: 0

  The news out of California this evening, that the Governor has declared a state of fiscal emergency, is a reminder that the collapse process which began 3 years ago still has a way to run. Accordingly, my work on California continues. I updated much of my analysis of food stamp usage, sensitivity to energy prices, [...]

• MacroTwits Hour: Sunday Night Show 18 April 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, April 18th, 2010 at 11:11 pm, Comments: 0

  The full range of stocktwits.tv programming can now be taken through iTunes. See link at bottom of the StockTwits. TV front page. Regards, –Gregor

• Back on Track?: GregorWeekly Macro Note
  Gregor Macdonald, March 20th, 2010 at 11:57 pm, Comments: 0

  You knew that Meg Whitman, EBay CEO and now candidate for California Governor, was going to lean hard on her back on track meme when Condi Rice endorsed the campaign, and repeated that particular phrase. I often wonder how a political campaign crafts core messages, such as this. We are told alot of research and [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 16 March 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, March 16th, 2010 at 3:15 am, Comments: 0

  The Challenges Ahead for World Oil: James Hamilton, Econobrowser.
  Beijingers Get Back on Their Bikes: Michael Bristow, BBC News.
  Barbarism and Good Brandy: John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report.
  Unemployment Tops 20% in Eight California Counties: Alana Semuels, The Los Angeles Times.
  The Great British Economy Disaster: John Lanchester, London Review of Books.
  Economists Deliver a Sturdy Smackdown of Peak [...]

• 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 [...]