Posted by
Doug Wolkon on October 16, 2008 at 1:14 am
Given the poor state of the economy, isn’t it inevitable that the system for trash removal commonly referred to as “Pay As You Throw” is soon coming to a theater near you? So what happens when our cities and towns charge us individually by weight and/or size for the trash we produce?
Think about how much trash is being imported into your city everyday, only to be removed and sent to never never land the next day. The inefficiency of such an economic system is soon to be confronted. We have no choice. Our cities and towns can no longer afford to just turn the cheek and waste all that energy. Continued »
Posted by
Doug Wolkon on March 10, 2008 at 10:48 am
Dramatic unemployment increases in financial services, construction and autos will be the real shoe to drop. Who will pay for all these billions of dollars of writedowns? Oh, I forgot, the Fed has the ability to actually print more food and oil - yeah right, was Bernanke ever taught the first rule of Economics: Land is Scarce.
So how much of our newly printed paper is currently being bought by our social security system - talk about drinking your own blood. The welfare state will inevitably be forced to solve their huge inefficient costs of entitlements and armed forces. Continued »
Posted by
Doug Wolkon on February 21, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Given the energy transportation costs, nasty petroleum-based containers, and cost of waste, it is inevitable that well-filtered municipal water distributed out of locally recycled glass (e.g. wine bottles from local restaurants) is a gold mine waiting to happen. Continued »
Posted by
Doug Wolkon on February 11, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Any derivatives of $1 as currency increases our financial service costs (i.e. in the form of complicated accounting and just plain time to figure out the math at time of purchase). Economically speaking and unfortunately to all you labor, it allows labor time to be denominated down as math, not value. Continued »
Posted by
Doug Wolkon on December 23, 2007 at 1:49 am
These so-called “wealthiest” 5%, that burn so much carbon, also have 1.) The most polluted waters, so we are forced to import day old “fresh” fish from the “poorest” countries to avoid m-e-r-c-u-r-y in our local fish, 2.) Acid rain, yes our rain actually burns through car paint, and 3.) Toxic air, asthma is an epidemic among children in America. Further, more and more of the food eaten by the “wealthiest” is packaged and not nearly as fresh as so much of the food in so many of the “poorest” societies. Continued »
