Monthly Archives: February 2014

A glimpse inside a Wall Street society dinner

A friend calls it going “native”. When wealthy people live in a world of such extreme privilege, special treatment and favor that they lose all sense of reason and perspective on the reality of life outside their world. They convince … Continue reading

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Organic flow batteries making progress

New flow battery design could store large amounts of renewable power inexpensively in organic molecules. Here is a direct link to a recent CBC radio interview with Dr Aziz.

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FX manipulation finally under scrutiny

A widening probe of price-fixing and manipulation among banks is finally zoning in of late on the foreign-exchange(FX) market. At 5 trillion+ dollars a day of trading, global currency markets are huge and impact everyone and yet have typically been … Continue reading

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