Juggling Dynamite

Skyscrapers, windows, lap tops, phone screens, car windows, the world is full of solar panels waiting to be utilized. Free, clean energy everyday; ours for the taking. Mass scale solar is world changing. The most important evolution since the wheel.

Silicon Valley startup Ubiquitous Energy is making the world’s first transparent solar cells, a technology that could greatly expand the reach of solar power. Their technology is an invisible film that can go on any surface and generate power, which could lead to cell phones and tablets that never run out of batteries — or skyscrapers that can use their massive banks of windows as solar panels. Here is a direct video link.

Corruption and lawlessness in the finance sector, aided and abetted by all levels of government from the White House, to Congress, regulators and the Attorney General offices. The evidence is overwhelming and yet still being ignored. Bowen: “The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission ordered me to remove damning testimony re Citi execs.”

Former Citigroup Chief Underwriter for Consumer Lending Richard Bowen discusses Wall Street whistle blowing by himself and others and the evidence of wrongdoing during the financial crisis that has been ignored by the Attorney General’s office. Here is a direct video link.

U.S. shale oil companies are sustaining production even as oil prices crash. Four words: desperate for cash flow. The reasons are sunk costs, overhead and high debt levels. We can thank the Fed’s zero interest policies for much of this. Years of incessant easing have not smoothed the business cycle, but made it more extreme, both in expansion and contraction. For more see: The Fed isn’t oil”s friend.

Here is a direct video link.