Energy Efficiency

In Australia, the news on Monday reported the Dow Jones had dropped due to the Swine Flu; the global economic crash, refugees and terrorism have all been pushed back while the media – at the behest of the Government – directs our attention from the real problems to Swine Flu; not the politician’s snouts in [...]

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The Chinese started it (sort of) with the one child policy and many other countries can see the merits of putting a ceiling on the population as it becomes increasingly difficult to grow sufficient food to feed the masses. We have passed peak phosphate (about 20% left and required in the making of fertiliser) , [...]

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April 24th 2009: China stepping up the pressure as Premier Wen Jiabao says key currency countries need watching and that economic polices of countries which issue global reserve currencies require closer supervision as part of building a diversified international monetary system. His comments, an apparent reference to U.S. economic management that Beijing has blamed in [...]

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Many years ago (when I worked in the finance industry) the finance institutions squealed with outrage when prospective clients – who came to borrow money – withheld relevant information, nothings changed really, but it appears the banks have long hidden behind a veneer of respectability; now I know I seem to be spending an inordinate [...]

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The Ponzi Scheme was named after Charles Ponzi (who became notorious for using the technique after emigrating from Italy to the United States in 1903); he did not invent the scheme, but probably read about it in Charles Dickens 1857 novel Little Dorrit; but it comes as no surprise that the Americans have turned it [...]

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