one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
February 21 2010
Wall Street’s bailout hustle: re-creating the conditions for another crash
October 28 2009
McDonald's leaves Iceland.“What the company actually said was that it can no longer compete with Icelandic fast-food joints that rely on local produce”
June 28 2009
Today in The Zombieconomy. The articles linked to from that post are well worth a read too.
April 25 2009
Could the current economic downturn be attributed to the recent oil shock?
February 12 2009
How the world almost came to an end at 2PM on September 18th.
January 18 2009
A downturn in the economy pushes people towards DIY and out of services. Not really surprising.
December 18 2008
Madoff and the Global Economy
October 03 2008
One of the clearer explanations I’ve read of how the current financial mess came about.
August 01 2008
Spain implements heavy measures to reduce energy consumption. The population’s reaction is pretty much what you’d expect and explains why limits of this type are rarely implemented elsewhere.
April 22 2007
Cities are wealth generators“When you integrate all these people and all these activities and the struggle to make a living, total productivity increases”
October 28 2006
That’s going to hurt
A report on global warming by the British treasury says it will be cheaper for developed nations to tackle the problem with significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, than to deal with the consequences later. Duh.
With most politicians looking no further than their own noses the next elections, I doubt that will kickstart anything except a few empty promises.
Meanwhile, Belgium is part of the 7 European countries that will exceed their individual emission limits. No big surprise there either, they’re too busy trying to cause a depression down south before climate change does it for them.