Sticky Feet: Analysis Through a Peak Oil Lens
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- Wall Street professional turned venture capitalist: Alternative Energy, India, Green-tech. Peak Oil propagandist.
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Mobile Gaming India
September 10, 2010 06:03PM - Oil Wars and Socialism. Tea
Party Feeding Frenzy
September 04, 2010 07:18AM - Inclusive Growth, Energy & the
In[s]anity of MassConsumption
August 30, 2010 04:30AM - India Connects - (Mobile)
Internet Revolution
August 17, 2010 05:43PM - Solar Palooza India
August 14, 2010 05:13AM
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June 18, 2010 04:42PM - “@Malusinka
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Mobile Gaming India
If you are a young gamer with thoughts of making millions by developing a game of your own, one of the most exciting opportunities has to be the Indian mobile gaming market. On the back of rapid mobile telephony and mobile internet growth, the Indian mobile gaming market is growing by/… Read full post »
Oil Wars and Socialism. Tea Party Feeding Frenzy
Der Spiegel, the German Magazine, is reporting
on a leaked draft German Military study that predicts drastic and
near term consequences as a result of Peak Oil, which it
acknowledges may occur in 2010. This German report is another
in a series of recent government studies war… Read full post »
Inclusive Growth, Energy & the In[s]anity of MassConsumption
For its 2007-2012 Five Year economic plan India
incorporated the concept of “Inclusive Growth”, which,
in the most basic terms, is defined as pursuing the goal of
bringing the benefits of rapid economic growth to the masses
through government policy. This includes, but… Read full post »
India Connects - (Mobile) Internet Revolution
The Indian mobile telephone subscriber base is growing by double digits. By the end of 2010 India will have nearly 700 million mobile telephone subscribers, out of a population of 1.15 billion, making India the second largest mobile telephone market behind China and the fastest growing. The growth o
… Read full post »Solar Palooza India
In July, 2010, the Indian federal government released detailed guidelines for new grid connected solar power projects as part of India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. The issuance of these guidelines marks the beginning of a six month process for solar project… Read full post »
India Rising
The following is a post that first appeared at NRIMatters.com, where I will be a regular contributor.
NRI Matters is a new effort by digital agency Experience Commerce, the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs to reach out to NRIs (non/
… Read full post »REFORMING BANKRUPTCY, PART II: WORKER RIGHTS
During the past three decades the rights of workers have steadily been scaled back through unfavorable laws and regulation, as well as the from the impact of global wage competition. During the current period of financial stress on governments and business, plans are afoot to fur
… Read full post »BP Oil Spill: Reforming Polluter Pays
The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill highlights the debate over the correct way to deal with environmental and other externalities. Under current law, polluters are seldom required to pick up the full cost of environmental pollution. Strangely, much of the right wing would like t… Read full post »
Peak Oil, Peak People - The Pique of Human Folly
An honest appraisal of our global energy supply
situation indicates that the adjustment process to a post-carbon
society may be soul-searing on a personal and societal
level. There is a very real possibility that declining oil supplies
will tip the economy far beyond gradual decline
CNN and CNBC are reporting a story about a group of German millionaires who are volunteering to pay an additional 10% in income taxes for 10 years to help the German government meet its budget needs in a time of austerity.
The movement, known as the Club of the Wealthy,
… Read full post »WHICH REGULATORY AGENCY WILL FAIL NEXT?
The financial crisis and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill demonstrated that the government's regulatory apparatus is completely broken. Given the widespread regulatory failure and the high costs imposed, shouldn't each and every regulatory system be reviewed before another disaster strikes?
It
… Read full post »WHICH REGULATORY AGENCY WILL FAIL NEXT?
The financial crisis and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill demonstrated that the government's regulatory apparatus is completely broken. Given the widespread regulatory failure and the high costs imposed, shouldn't each and every regulatory system be reviewed before another disaster strikes?
It
… Read full post »Beyond BP: Another Energy Disaster in the Making
If anyone was hoping that American business leaders would rise to the challenge and display bravery in the face of America's Energy security threats, they will be disappointed. A group of eminent American business leaders recently formed a group, the American Energy Innovation Council, that is
… Read full post »BP and NY Times Mock Peak Oil
The following British Petroleum (BP) and New York Times pieces are timely and reflect the chasm Peak Oil proponents have yet to bridge to convince the so called mainstream.
BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Imagining Life Without Oil, And Being Ready by John Leland
BP's continued Peak Oil d
… Read full post »Jeff Sachs Esteemed Economist - Tilting Taxes: Class Warfare
Jeffrey Sachs recently came out with an op-ed in the Financial Times, wherein he repudiates Keynesianism but advocates the only fix remaining for the financial crisis - increasing taxes on the wealthy.
Time to Plan for Post-Keynesian Era Password protected, but you can get the summary at Z
… Read full post »Rogues Gallery of Peak Oil Cassandras
- the 2010 U.K. Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy
Security sponsored by no less than six well-heeled blue chip
corporations including the luminous Sir Richard Branson's Virgin
Group;
- the 2010 U.S. Department of Defense Joint Forces Command
report;
- a 2010 interview with Glen Sweetnam, a se/
The Massive Canadian Bank Bailout By Stealth
Canadian bankers and regulators have received much undeserved praise for superior management of Canada's banking system, as I've noted before. Canada's government was able to undertake a stealth $500 billion bank bailout, with nary a peep from the public. Translated into American...th… Read full post »
India's "Inclusive Growth" Paradigm: Looking East
India's economic growth has recovered from the depths of
the financial crisis and its economy grew 8.6% in Q4 fiscal 2010
(calendar Q1 2010) and 7.4% for the fiscal year ending March 31,
2010. Other things equal - "ceteris paribus", India appears
set to resume its path… Read full post »
Germans Ban Nudity
German regulators are widening the ban on naked short selling despite cries of heresy from financial markets. While many Euro zone governments and the U.S. authorities oppose an extensive ban, the Germans are on this one point demonstrating the backbone governments need to show to arrest fi… Read full post »
Deflation, Inflation or Hyperinflation?
Recently there has been a lot of talk among analysts and in the blogosphere about whether we are headed for a period of deflation, inflation or possibly even hyperinflation. There are two significant points to note about this discussion: (1) there is no consensus view and (2)… Read full post »
The Peasants are Storming the Gates. Let Them Eat Cake?
The Global Financial Crisis brought about the single biggest one-time historical transfer of wealth to the financial sector from western taxpayers via the government. This wealth transfer was the culmination of a 30 year period during which the Elite 10% of society gained a near unprecedented… Read full post »
Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper and His G20 Friends
Below is a copy of an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper re: to officially and publicly address the end of Cheap Oil and the arrival of Peak Oil. In case I receive a reply it will be posted to Sticky Feet blog. Sticky Feet is not… Read full post »
German Nudity Ban Expanding
German regulators are widening the ban on naked short selling despite cries of heresy from financial markets. While many Euro zone governments and the U.S. authorities oppose an extensive ban, the Germans are on this one point demonstrating the backbone governments need to show to arrest fi… Read full post »
Taxpayer Looting, Part Deux: Taxes, Tolls and Bank Trolls
Banks having found it ridiculously easy to loot the public treasury are proposing schemes that would impoverish taxpayers yet more. With casual gall the show is being billed with full frontal nudity (i.e. naked, right in public) and gullible public officials are ready to stampede us through the… Read full post »
Daily Links: Hypocrisy Abounds, (Moral) Bankruptcy, Deficits
Daily Links: On the Hypocrisy of the deficit hawks (who are really corporate socialists or Corporatists in disguise, not free marketers); blatant Neo-liberal lies about fiscal policy that mainstream media does not correct because reporters don’t know better; a historical perspective on Sovereig… Read full post »
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