Posts Tagged ‘China’

• Podcast Picks: Friday 12 February 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, February 12th, 2010 at 11:57 am, Comments: 0

  Country Driving in China: interview with Peter Hessler, WBUR On Point Radio.
  Dow to Triple Digits: interview with Robert Prechter, Frisby’s Bulls and Bears Radio.
  Building a Planet with a Future: Alex Steffen via KUOW’s Speaker Forum series, KUOW.org.
  The Vancouver Winter Olympics: cost and security for the Winter Games, Dianne Rhem WAMU Radio.
  Peak Oil and its Effect [...]

• 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 15 December 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, December 15th, 2009 at 2:00 am, Comments: 0

  Investing in an Empire of Illusion – Real Solutions to the Energy and Climate Crises: Chris Nelder, GetRealist.com.
  Cocktails and Real Estate in Greenwich: Bruce Krasting,  ZeroHedge.com.
  World Bank Spends Billions on Coal-Fired Power Stations: Ben Webster, The Times of London.
  Fastest Food Inflation Since Riots Means Milk Up 39%: Bloomberg.com.

  Greece Defies Europe as EMU Crisis [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 11 December 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, December 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am, Comments: 0

  Anthony Bolton Goes to China: Business Daily, BBC World Service .
  Gas, Shale, and Hydrofracking – problems of shale gas extraction: Medlock, Mall, Adams, Wujnovich, WBUR On Point Radio.
  Aqua Shock – The Water Crisis in America: Author Susan J Marks, Financial Sense Online.
  “Keep the Oil in the Soil”: Ecuador Seeks Money to Keep Untapped Oil [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 27 October 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, October 27th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, Comments: 0

  New School of Thought Brings Energy to the Dismal Science: Nathanial Gronewold, The New York Times.
  The Narrow Ledge of Oil Prices: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  Food Will Never Be So Cheap Again: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph.
  Will Allen and the Urban Farming Revolution: Ethan Zuckerman, World Changing.
  China’s Water Needs Create Opportunities: Hillary Brenhouse, The New York Times.
  The [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 09 October 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, October 9th, 2009 at 11:53 am, Comments: 0

  Macro Overview with Eric Janszen of iTulip: Other Voices, FSNewshour with Jim Puplava.
  Mealer and Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: The Dianne Rehm Show WAMU Radio.
  Urban Theorist Jane Jacobs: James Kunstler on KunstlerCast Radio.
  Katsenelson and Markman, Gold Bears and Bullish Neon Sightings: The Disciplined Investor.
  Understanding Australia, reprise of earlier 13 Part series: Radio Australia.
  Kotok/Sinclair [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 06 October 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, October 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am, Comments: 0

  RBA Sounds the All-Clear: Michael Pascoe, The Sydney Morning Herald.
  Drive-By Economics: Hawaii Edition, Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed.
  Don’t Blame China: Simon Johnson and James Kwak, The Washington Post.
  High Speed Rail: A No-Brainer: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  Tin Squeeze Tests Regulator’s Mettle in U.K.: John Kemp, Reuters Blogs.
  Apartment Vacancy Rate at 23 Year High: Calculated Risk.
  Prosperity Rests [...]

• Readings: Tuesday 29 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 29th, 2009 at 9:41 pm, Comments: 0

  Where High Speed Rail Makes the Most Sense: An America 2050 Report, as covered by The Infrastructurist.
  Russia throws another currency on the barbie: Izabella Kaminska , FT Alphaville.
  Historical Home Sale Volume Measured in Dollars: Rich Toscano, Professor Piggington’s Econo-Almanac for the Landed Poor.
  The Crossroads of Sustainability and Suicide: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  China’s Mr. [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 19 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 19th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, Comments: 0

  The FT Alphaville Blog did a nice wrap-up yesterday | see:  Bull in a China bullion shop | on the phenomenon which I have called The Chinese Silver Download Experience.  Do give it a read because what’s helpful in the FT coverage is the greater level of detail, down at street level, that only on-site reportage can provide. I [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 12 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 12th, 2009 at 9:51 pm, Comments: 0

  Symbolic September has crammed all sorts of meaning, into just two weeks. Between the US and China, we’ve got everything from a whispering cold war in Gold-Dollar-Yuan, to a hot war in drilling pipe and automobile tires. Between Japan and the US, we’ve seen a change election sweep a new party to power, led by [...]