Posts Tagged ‘Debt’

• Readings: Tuesday 2 March 2010
  Gregor Macdonald, March 2nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm, Comments: 0

  My Verdict on the Bloom Box: Chris Nelder, GetRealList.com.
  Drought Threatens Syria Economy as Refugees Flee Parched Farms: Daniel Williams, Bloomberg.com.
  Bad weather and uncertainty hit construction sector recovery: Phillip Inman, Guardian.co.uk.
  U.K. Teeters on the Brink of Its Own Greek Debt Tragedy: Landon Thomas Jr., The New York Times.
  A Game of Tag Breaks Out Between London’s Graffiti [...]

• 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: [...]

• Gregor Weekly Model Portfolio Update: 10 December 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, December 10th, 2009 at 2:11 pm, Comments: 0

  Just about every asset class including gold and silver remains on edge in the wake of the Dubai event, which I marked not as a trigger, but the start of the recognition phase to the problem of sovereign debt. Comically, Greece and Spain–hit hard this week by the ratings agencies–are small problems compared to the [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 14 November 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, November 14th, 2009 at 11:39 pm, Comments: 0

  As the decade prepares to end I am not able to find a single example of serious scholarship that effectively refutes both peak oil as a general concept, or, that refutes the assertion that world oil production is currently peaking. To be quite honest, the field of energy studies is poorer not richer as a [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 24 October 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, October 24th, 2009 at 11:44 pm, Comments: 0

  Excuse me but I’ll need to check your bag: In hindsight, I believe there will be two groups of market observers that will awaken over the next 12 months to ask themselves the following question: how could I have been so wrong? In the first group, we have the conventional recoverists, who continue to apply [...]

• Podcast Picks: Friday 25 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am, Comments: 0

  The Giant Pool Of Money: Where Are They Now?, NPR/This American Life Radio.
  Peter Maass: “Crude World” (Knopf), The Dianne Rehm Show WAMU Radio.
  Los Angeles: Provisional Civilization, James Kunstler on KunstlerCast Radio.
  Inflation/Deflation, Or Both? Michael Hampton, Commodity Watch Radio.
  Michael Hudson: Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage, KPFA Guns and Butter Radio.
  Natural Gas: Advances in natural gas drilling [...]