Daily Archives: December 3, 2015

Confessions of a money printer

Seven years after the Fed’s first Quantitative easing program was launched, one of its original foot soldiers takes stock. Andrew Huszar is a Fed veteran who served as the “quarterback” for the world’s largest stimulus program by managing the purchase … Continue reading

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Fossil fuel subsidies $5.2 trillion this year

Time to sober up. Science alone cannot make up for dumb and wasteful allocation of our resources. Great discussion in this clip: University of Manchester Professor Kevin Anderson discusses the path of higher temperatures over the next century and what … Continue reading

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The investment we must make

The climate talks in Paris are negotiating the usual quagmire: how much will rich countries (that have disproportionately created current carbon levels) pay poorer countries so that they can retool to smarter technologies, cut emissions and adapt to some of … Continue reading

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