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Debt and Culture
Read more: Debt and CultureI just read an interesting book review (posted on Salon, but originally from the LA Review of Books) about the role of debt in civilization and history. The book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years,…
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The Peak of Woods: a Foretaste of the Oil Peak?
Read more: The Peak of Woods: a Foretaste of the Oil Peak?Slashdot pointed me at a fascinating article on the deforestation of the planet: Peak Wood: Nature Does Impose Limits | Miller-McCune Online. I hadn’t appreciated the role of forests in causing relocation of native…
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Scary Economic Observation
Read more: Scary Economic ObservationGlenn Greenwald, a commentator in Salon, posted a scary observation in which he compares the U.S. economy to Russia and Argentina. He quotes Desmond Lachman, an IMF expert on emerging markets and former Salomon…
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