…of what counts as investment (vs consumption) spending. Spending on education, for instance, doesn’t count as investment, even though it clearly produces immense quantities of valuable, productive, long-lived, real-world stuff:…
…through accounting depreciation/write-offs estimating and recording decay, wear and tear, obsolescence, etc.) Keynes seems to be making a total freshman error here. He’s confusing investment spending with vernacular “investment”: swapping M2 assets…
…and buybacks by US corporations came to almost exactly the same as capital investment, at just over $2tn. As recently as the early 1990s, spending on investment was four times…
Spencer England writes: This article is worth reading – it is at two sources: Energy Bulletin and Financial Times…is peak oil dead? The marginal price of new oil is now…
…at the same rate the trade deficit would widen. P.S. Yesterday’s New York Times had a very good article on the new energy developments called Fuel to Burn,Now What. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/business/energy-environment/energy-boom-in-us-upends-expectations.html?_r=1&emc=eta1pments….
…as the biggest investor in wind turbines and other clean energy technology. And it has dictated tough new energy standards for lighting and gas mileage for cars. But even as…
…it is free. The temptation has been to pay for the new environmentalism by gutting the old environmentalism (focused on visible pollution). Here the energy industry in recent decades offers…
rdan Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT ON THE PASSING OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY The Department of Energy…
rdan (hat tip stormy) Robert Hirsch notes the following in Energy Bulletin: The world is now in a period of epic economic chaos. People are disoriented and unsure of what…
…of the spending line ie. “Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy” Budget Authority = $18,500M (which is on top of what is already budgeted for 2009) and concluding that it is…