Earn What You Spend

One of the more common barriers to entry to building out alternative energy sources - both locally and at scale - is the financing.  In nearly every instance, alternative energy require a significant capital outlay that, when amortized over a long period of time, will actually save money.  Most alternative energy solutions, then, face two primary risks [...]

Nouriel Roubini joins the ranks of those concerned about the drop in consumer spending [via Clusterstock].  It has certainly occupied my mind of late (see here and here most recently).  Roubini gives us twenty reasons why we are seeing the American consumer drastically pull back in their spending.  The first reason of course catches my eye as the [...]

In the newest issue of The Atlantic, Virginia Postrel writes an interesting article, The Case For Debt. I was surprised the author could miss the sea of red flags about too much debt at the consumer, corporate, and national level.  But miss it she did, and in fact she tries her best to make the ‘case’ for [...]

In a WSJ article from yesterday, the author explores how prices are dropping right and left, leaving our nation open to the very real possibility of deflationary forces.  What’s this mean? Things get cheaper.  But as the article confirms, “deflation can lead to a vicious spiral of business closures … and layoffs.”
But one phrase in [...]