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I'm just going to go on record and say I think the complete opposite. An up move has started.

Yep, but keep close touch to how the situation will be solved, because I have a suspicion Canada will get screwed over on this, like in many other areas lately.

I guess that's why the US is talking of "international cooperation" and all that at those world meetings. They are in effect strong arming other countries to see it their way.

But uh, doesn't ordering online mean that the call centre employee doesn't get anything?

I would mind it. I hate already how a 30second sound bite is accompanied by a 15 second commercial just before on so many websites. Plus the technology is screwy and the more videos within videos and the more times I can't access them at all! I would probably still watch YouTube just long...

But they are. Apparently the coal producers get a free pass here. No way would cap & trade be passed with the huge energy industry in the US. The US is even said to be the only bastion left to global cap & trade. It takes some time to convince the energy industry, and it mainly is about...

Here's the thing in the eternal QE debate. The Central Bank alone cannot raise the money supply. It must encourage the banks to lend. So if they are buying MBS and treasuries to make look the bank balance sheets better, how come the banks are not lending? Maybe the central bank actions are...

This is the scariest graph I've seen in my life (slight exageration) Look at the top half. That part alone to anyone with 5 braincells or more should explain it in plain detail. http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200905/johnson-chart.gif

The only part that I found interesting was when he said that food prices in the developing world haven't come down as much as they did in the developed world. Looks like the World Bank is doing its job!

He won't, who put those tax incentives in place? Multinationals. Companies like IBM that sell "global solutions" lobbied for this kind of tax incentives.

I was scared too when I joined here, scared someone would rip me a new one if I got it wrong, and they did. Today I'm hopefully ripping some other guy a new one when they're wrong! It's a good bunch. But do stay away from the Politics & Religion section.

Usa? :p I don't trust academics, except for that Rubini guy, he's not letting go.

It's difficult to make tough calls, I respect him. Of course, it's also been said that if the majority disagree violently with you, you're 100% right! So people shouldn't go overboard if someone disagrees with you.

Obama closing loopholes on big corporations? I don't believe it! It's politicians just like him that created those loopholes in exchange for campaign funds. It's properly a cleverly marketed tax increase for the bottom 90%.

Wait so he is most productive by keeping things bottled up, quiet? I sure wish Bill O'Reilly prescribed to that theory! :p the world would have been a better place. The more transparency the better, it's simple. Would you invest in a black box? Maybe. But would you invest in a black box...

That really is great, it shows what human ingenuity can do when applied constructively, it's a hard sell to dumb voters though "state-owned banks less socialist than big private banks". You can't count on the government, you must do things at the local level, at the state level. Good thing...

We should be hopeful there will be accountability. There was in 1932. There are cracks, and the best part is that those cracks are easier to see than ever by the most people ever. However since Wall Street does continue to own Washington, we shouldn't go back to eating nachos and watching CSI...

Political assassinations have happened in the US with no problem, most people just don't look closely at it. I don't know about this guy though, it's very suspicious. Usually such "suicides" are like a shotgun to the back of the head. But they happen a lot, like the apparent "suicides" in...

It's not the president's role to jam legislation through Congress. The fact he's doing that shows how much he's not working for americans. We've elected a dictator for 4 years, Caesar. And yeah, pretty much the only opposition is in the US it seems, and a damn good thing they are opposing...

Maybe those jobs weren't really lost at all, maybe they just went under the table and don't pay anymore taxes.