Posts tagged “economics”
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Nader Speaks Out On Mega-Billionaires and Civic Duty
May 12, 2011
“What are the chances of a small number of the mega-rich putting ample resources behind basic changes that benefit people but upset vested interests? Issues such as a living wage, Medicare for all, and cracking down on corporate crime were part of the agenda for the Meliorists featured in my book. The difference between justice and charity is taking on power to benefit people.”
Tags: economics, environment, finance, only the super-rich can save us, ralph nader
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Linh Dinh on “The Wisdom of Snooki”
April 13, 2011
To get good seats for Snooki, some students showed up seven hours early. The decision to invite her at $32,000 was made by the students themselves, so this was also democracy in action. Snooki is a Jersey girl, and the venue was in New Jersey, but the students’ identification with her goes a lot deeper, I think. They like her because she is wholly untalented and unapologetically stupid. Her vapidity gives them hope. If someone this unexceptional can cash in on fifteen glorious minutes, then maybe the good, easy life can be theirs also, unless, of course, they like to cogitate and can string three or four sentences together. If that’s the case, then fuggedaboutit. Onto the trash heap you go!
Tags: blog, economics, linh dinh, love like hate, opinion, politics
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John R. Talbott: “Warren Buffet is Not God”
April 1, 2011
Warren Buffet is involved in a situation in which he is deciding whether one of his employees, David Sokol, did something wrong and possibly illegal when he bought close to $10 million in Lubrizol stock prior to Buffet’s firm, Berkshire Hathaway, making an offer to buy the company. Buffet should be careful in his defense of Sokol that it wasn’t just Sokol who did something wrong here and quite possibly illegal . . . Conflicts are certain to arise when the party making the decisions to act is the party making the judgment as to whether and how to mete out punishment. Buffet cannot play both roles, even though at times he does seem to be omniscient and all powerful.
Tags: 86 biggest lies on wall street, economics, huffington post, john talbott, News
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An excerpt from John R. Talbott’s newest book
April 1, 2011
If we don’t come to understand the underlying reasons for the current crisis and enact real reform of Wall Street and the banks and get big corporate money out of our elections we face a future that is truly frightening.
Tags: 86 biggest lies on wall street, economics, john r talbott, obamanomics, politics
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Derrick Jensen and the “Age of Ooops”
March 11, 2011
I’m not the only person who has noticed that those who are destroying the planet almost never pay any real costs themselves. What happened to Tony Hayward, CEO of British Petroleum, who among others should be held accountable for the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill? He was released from his position with a $1.6 million severance payment, as well as an annual pension of about $1 million (he also holds several million shares of BP stock). While some daring souls have boldly asked whether it might be a teensy bit appropriate to, ahem, politely request an inquiry into whether this severance package should be reduced even the tiniest bit, I’ve not seen many public calls (though I’ve heard a lot of private calls) for Hayward’s head to be paraded around New Orleans on a pike.
Tags: derrick jensen, dreams, economics, environment, orion magazine
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Derrick Jensen on the economy: “The Tyranny of Entitlement”
January 28, 2011
“There are an awful lot of people who . . . simply absorb the perspective of the newscasters who say, “Economic growth, good; economic stagnation, bad.” And of course if you care more about the economic system than life on the planet, this is true. If, however, you care more about life than the economic system, it is not quite so true”
Tags: derrick jensen, dreams, economics, environment, orion magazine
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A book review of Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us with TransitionVoice
January 19, 2011
“Though it’s fiction, the book can serve as a handbook for activists to get their issues out to a wider public using fun and spectacle. . . . Fewer boring technical explanations. Less apocalyptic fear. More fun and hope. It might just be crazy enough to work.” - Eric Curren at TransitionVoice.com
Tags: books, economics, only the super-rich can save us, ralph nader, review
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Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
June 2, 2010
In May 2010, Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terrorism and the Economy, appeared at Google UK for an hour-long presentation on the financing of terror networks around the world. Settle in and take a look below!
Tags: current events, economics, google, interviews, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy, united kingdom
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BBC Interview with Loretta Napoleoni
April 21, 2010
Check out this BBC interview with Loretta Napoleoni, in which, in response to a question, Loretta explains the connection between terrorism and the global economy in under one minute. Then, check out Terrorism and the Economy, now available directly from our website and very soon in bookstores everywhere.
Tags: bbc, current events, economics, interviews, loretta napoleoni, terrorism, terrorism and the economy
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Loretta Napoleoni at TEDGlobal: The Economics of Terrorism
April 9, 2010
From the 2009 TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, here’s Loretta Napleoni on the intricate connections between Terrorism and the Economy:
Tags: conference, economics, loretta napoleoni, ted, tedglobal, terrorism, terrorism and the economy
“economics” Posts
- May 12, Nader Speaks Out On Mega-Billionaires and Civic Duty
- Apr 13, Linh Dinh on “The Wisdom of Snooki”
- Apr 1, John R. Talbott: “Warren Buffet is Not God”
- Apr 1, An excerpt from John R. Talbott’s newest book
- Mar 11, Derrick Jensen and the “Age of Ooops”
- Jan 28, Derrick Jensen on the economy: “The Tyranny of Entitlement”
- Jan 19, A book review of Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us with TransitionVoice
- Jun 2, Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
- Apr 21, BBC Interview with Loretta Napoleoni
- Apr 9, Loretta Napoleoni at TEDGlobal: The Economics of Terrorism
