Tag Archives: economics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Files for Chapter 11
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after reaching a deal with creditors to wipe out more than $3 billion in debt. This will be the second major … Continue reading
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Andy Grove on How to Create American Jobs
In the wake of this week’s jobs report, here is a Businessweek article from the July 1, 2010 in which Andy Grove, lays out a path to American economic renewal. If anyone has the chops for this, it’s Grove. One of … Continue reading
People and the Planet: A Report by the Royal Society
On April 26, The Royal Society, the UK’s 350 year old academy of science, released the results of a 21 month study of patterns of population and consumption. Sir John Sulston, chair of the working group, put it very simply: … Continue reading
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What is Social Darwinism?
No, I am not playing Jeopardy, I’m considering the phrase Barack Obama used to characterize the recent House budget proposal. I thought I had a good idea of what he meant: survival of the fittest, applied to human endeavors. I learned a … Continue reading
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Bill Moyers is Back!!!!
On Sunday evening, I was delighted to catch the first episode of the new PBS series, Moyers & Company. You can view it, and a lot more, on the new website, http://billmoyers.com/. Moyers interviewed political scientists, Jacob Hacker and Paul … Continue reading
Sabre Rattling Over Oil: Better Get Used to It
The juxtaposition of headlines this morning was strange but telling. On page one of the Sacramento Bee, under the heading of “Tourism,” was the story of Virgin Galactic, a travel company that expects to offer 2.5 hour rides into space, … Continue reading
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Be Careful Out There: Shopping Rage
The title of this post is taken from the sergeant who read the daily assignments on the ground-breaking, 80′s cop show, “Hill Street Blues.” Every day he would warn his people, “Be careful out there!” Sadly, the same caution may … Continue reading
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Another Thread in the Social Fabric Unravels
My wife and I both come from (different) upstate New York factory towns. My family moved to San Jose when I was nine. Mary moved to California after high school, while her brothers stayed in Rochester and went to work … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Current Events, Economics
Occupied
I sat up and took notice the other night when a local news announcer complained that the “Occupy Sacramento” protestors “could not even say what they want.” In other words, they won’t play by the rules – you know, the … Continue reading
A View From Outside Our Borders
I had not planned to comment further on politics or the economy, but recently, in my geek mode, I was cruising for iPhone apps and downloaded the one for The Economist. I was so impressed with the first editorial I … Continue reading
Filed under Current Events, Economics
Stories of the Fall
I started this blog to write about stories, imagination, and spirituality. Initially, when I spoke of stories, I meant fiction. I now use the word in the wider sense suggested by James Hillman when he defined psychology as, “the study of … Continue reading
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How Much is Too Much?
I have to thank Ceinwenn for this topic. He or she (I can’t be sure, since the link takes me to a password protected forum) commented on my previous post, Three Requirements of a Book Review (?). Ceinwenn felt I … Continue reading
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