Monthly Archives: October 2016

China: vendor-take-back financier to global debt bubble

China has provided several forms of vendor-take-back financing for the western credit/consumption bubble 2005-2015.  First by recycling its export profits back into US and European treasury bonds (which kept rates low and allowed more borrowing in the west), then by … Continue reading

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TED: What a driverless world could look like

What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. … Continue reading

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The Behavioral Economics of Recycling

When I was very young, there was no municipal garbage pick up in our village, people were required to take their own garbage to the dump. This caused us to care about how much trash we created. My farmer grandparents … Continue reading

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