This article in Barrons actually provides many more than three reasons why the stock market is rising despite the fact 33 million Americans are finding themselves jobless. The real reason is that there is at most a tenuous connection between …
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Last month, Austria and then Sweden closed down their last coal-fired power stations. They are the second and third countries to go coal-free in Europe; Belgium did so in 2016.
The Citizens Climate Lobby is the environmental activist group, of which I am a member, that is most responsible for promoting the Carbon Fee and Dividend, which will create incentive for everyone, all businesses and all consumers, to decarbonize. When …
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The picture of this little boy really is impactful, but in truth, I actually don’t need a photograph; I simply think of: • Endless wars to support and grow the military-industrial complex • 22 million American children living in poverty • Rollbacks …
It seems that the political right and left find reasons to fight about everything. Strategies to address the coronavirus are just one more example, where the right puts a higher value on the impact to the economy, and thus advocates …
Watching money meant for small businesses go to the rich is a horribly painful process, but the creator of the meme here has managed to sew some humor into it. Here’s a recent article in Forbes: Crony Capitalism: Why The …
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“Misinformation” was provided as the reason that “Planet of the Humans” was pulled from distribution. How about “100 minutes of solid, deliberate misleading bull****, calculated to embarrass and attack proponents of renewable energy and other environmentalists. Talk about embarrassment; if …
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Reader Ankur Gupta asks, “What is the biggest bottleneck in the energy sector that prevents green energy from becoming a dependable source at mass scale?” Good question. It’s that the fossil fuel companies receive enormous subsidies, making their products artificially …
At a certain point in his life, (American musician/composer) Leonard Bernstein said, and I paraphrase, “I never wanted a life like (Italian conductor of classical music, noted for interpretations of Beethoven, Arturo) Toscanini, constantly relearning the same 50 pieces of …
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Those looking for a wonderful podcast of fossil-free investing, aka “divestment,” have hit the jackpot with this one. It’s all about disrupting the flow of money to oil, coal and natural gas, and it’s starting to have a significant impact …
