From last year, but things have not improved.
Category Archives: Economics
World’s wrecked cars reincarnated in Afghanistan – chicagotribune.com
I read this long ago and it still amazes me where our stuff ends up and why.
Roads Will Be More Deadly Than HIV/AIDS In 20 Years
Good times or bad, it all comes down to ignoring infrastructure that is gonna ruin our economies and get people killed.
Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt
This was an interesting – and somewhat sad – series about how much effort goes into making our clothes, as well as how little concern is given to those doing the actual work.
Give yourself some time to properly give it all a listen.
And here is a sort of follow-up story concerning the origin of some donated shirts and the stories behind them.
It Still Isn’t Easy, But Independent Bookstores Are Doing Better : NPR
Support these stores. They are your neighbors, your money stays in the neighborhood, and they will carry just about anything while usually making it a nice place to go to.
Glad to hear others feel the same.
Pope Francis has a few thoughts about the global economy. We added these 13 charts.
Non-Nazi Pope isn’t gonna bring everyone over to the faith, but saying stuff like this is at least going to make folks think of decent people instead of child molesters when you say the word “Catholic”.
Ed Asner lays it out as it is
Curt Schilling shutters his game studios, lays off entire staff – latimes.com
Anti-government conservative blowhard who benefited financially from being in a union has to close company down and lay off 400 people because his job creating ass can’t pay a tax bill to a state despite getting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund his venture.
I am not even going to try to create the required flowchart to show how much of a hypocrite Curt Schilling is, in even just this phase of his career goals.
Christ, these kinds of folks can’t even be honest with themselves, much less their philosophy.
The Charts TED Doesn’t Want to Share
Apparently you can discover all kinds of groundbreaking ideas at TED talks. Unless, of course, you want to cover the problem of income inequality.
Then they’ll just pretend it doesn’t exist. Morons.
Making no cents: finance minister says producing penny cost more than its worth – Winnipeg Free Press
I know there are good, solid economic reasons for getting rid of the penny.
But I would miss it here. And I’m sure there are plenty of folks in the countries that have removed it that probably miss it too.
Besides, if we did everything for just economic reasons, we’d have millions of dead citizens kicked out of their homes when they were fired or laid off – for good, solid economic reasons.
Good business does not make good government. Hell, good business most likely shouldn’t even be considered good. Profitable, perhaps, but good doesn’t live on a balance sheet.
So, farewell Canuck penny. Whether that is for the good or not remains to be seen.