Month August 2008

Credit crisis news

Bank crisis gaining steam. More banks are on the troubled list. “The deterioration of banks is accelerating.” Unintended consequences. UK property owners, faced with a new tax on unoccupied rental buildings, are having the buildings demolished. They can’t rent them…

Hillary

I had always figured when it came to crunch time that Hillary would knock the ball out of the stadium – and she did. PS. Bob Casey Jr. said “John McCain votes with Bush 95% of the time. That’s not…

EcoTuesday

EcoTuesday has meetings once a month in several cities focusing on sustainable business, with a talk by a local business person. They are also great for networking. Went to my first EcoTuesday in SF tonight, and met a bunch of…

Stalinism

Stalinism by Christopher Pickering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: soviet union) Lenin and Trotsky both tried to stop Stalin. But Lenin was ill and Trotsky didn’t push hard enough when he could have. Inherent in all this…