January 2010

  • Chrysler's Long Road Home

    By ecoscott on 1/19/10 11:38am
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    Will Chrysler take off or crash again under its new 5 year plan?Will Chrysler take off or crash again under its new 5 year plan?With all of the attention paid to the role of Wall Street in the financial crisis or to the political difficulties surrounding the health care reform bill, it is easy to forget that last year around this time some of the nation’s largest automakers were staring bankruptcy in the beady little eyes, and in some cases submitting to its stigmatizing but forgiving ways.

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  • Green Investing: Private Capital Wants Aggressive Government Policies

    By ecoscott on 1/15/10 3:39pm
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    Trillions of Dollars of Private Investment Is Waiting For Government Policies On Green To Invest In It...!Trillions of Dollars of Private Investment Is Waiting For Government Policies On Green To Invest In It...!I’m fascinated by the evolving relationship between climate change and money- on one level, there is no way that they can be separated. Climate change affects the entire framework of how we experience the Earth, while money is the system by which we gauge value within that framework. No matter what, the environment and money matters are inextricably mixed.

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  • The U.S. Trade Gap is Bigger and Bigger...

    By ecoscott on 1/12/10 12:41pm
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    Too many imports for the U.S.Too many imports for the U.S.

    The U.S. is having issues with money- and not surprisingly, the issues that most Americans are having- buying too much and more than we actually have money to afford, along with carrying a lot of debt that we don’t actually have the means of paying off anytime soon- and we are just not talking about it. The numbers are just in for November, and is seems that the U.S. trade deficit got much larger, ballooned is the term Reuters used, in part because oil went up over $5 per barrel and demand from consumers started going up again. It grew by 36.4 billion, or 9.7%, which is the largest deficit since last year in January, which could signal both healthy consumption in the economy and something to be worried about- we haven’t actually changed our habits at all.

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