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When it comes to the future of the airline industry, the question is not whether there will be a downturn, but how bad the downturn it will be.

I always keep an eye out for interesting resources that can help me - and others - make sense of the world. I found one a couple weeks ago and I’d like to share it. The U.S. Department of State issues publications called “Background Notes” for 200 nations around the world.

As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts.
Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be Our [...]

Ron Paul Questions Bernake

This kind of stuff is why Ron Paul drives me nuts. He raises some very serious issues but he does not know when and where to make those points.

On April 7th, James Surowiecki wrote his the New Yorker article Going for Broke:
In recent months, a lot of people have been handed financial get-out-of-jail-free cards. C.E.O.s who presided over billions in losses have walked away with tens of millions in compensation. The Federal Reserve has showered cheap money on banks and brokerages. Even Bear [...]

April first is a big day for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) .  On April first, every year, the USCIS starts taking applications for new H1-B visas for the coming year.   The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa issued by the USCIS.  These visas allows U.S. employers to employ foreign guest workers.  However, [...]

Today in his NY Times sponsored blog, "Conscience of a Liberal", Paul Krugman points out the lunacy in te financial news media.  The very people who cheered on the kinds of activities and processes that led to the current housing and credit crises are still being given front and center positions to talk about what [...]

The Christian Science Monitor has a new project called Patchwork Nation on their website. 

About the Patchwork Nation project
Nearly 305 million people live in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. Yet in recent elections it’s all been about fitting into two categories: red states that vote Republican and blue states that vote Democratic. [...]

Today there was a major change in the world that went unnoticed by most Americans. 
With all the bad economic news in the last year its easy to grow inured to more bad news.  Today the ever weakening US Dollar has created a new economic world.  For the first time in my lifetime the United States [...]

Your Stuff’s Backstory: If It Isn’t Grown, It Must Be Mined:
Where does your stuff come from? Before the store, before the factory, where did it really begin? If it isn’t made of wood, cloth, or other living matter, it was dug out of the ground.
Number one of The Natural Step’s four System Conditions is that [...]