I’ll show you a meltdown

From the BBC: An EU-funded study by a Deutsche Bank economist that concludes that the world loses more in financial terms each year through deforestation than it has so far in this massive financial meltdown.
The aim is worthy, however it might be asking too much of h-kind’s ability to translate — and accept translations of [...]

Post debate – McCain vanishes, Obama sticks around

I was struck by how, at least on the New York Times’ website live feed of the debate, which continued well after it was over, Obama (and his wife) stayed on the stage mingling and talking with the “Town Hall” guests for half an hour beyond the obligatory handshakes and hugs and waves.  John McCain, [...]

Bailout = More redistribution of economic and leadership might, away from U.S. and to China

A fascinating glimpse into how the financial meltdown could accelerate the shift in or a redistribution of economic power from the United States to Chin and, in what would be a very interesting development, to Japan.  Essentially, to the degree that the bailout is funded by the sale of US T-Bills, the countries doing most [...]

AIG on campus

Can’t escape the meltdown anywhere.  Or the tentacles of the crisis.  Or the question of whether AIG and its ilk should have concentrated more on fundamentals and less on glitz and glamor and the executive bonuses that surely somehow represent a destructive viral agent symptomatic of and perhaps a contributor to the search for gilding [...]

I didn’t know Thatcher, but let me tell you, I know Palin is no Thatcher

Not that she’s claiming to be, as far as I know.
But the point is that many of Sarah Palin’s fans seem to see in her someone of import and strength, who can somehow play a significant role in returning something to American political leadership that has gone lacking, a small town spine, perhaps, a no [...]