How much food?
“If we are to be saved in an ark, as Noah and his family were, it will be because we build it.” —Brigham Young How much food should you have to be prepared for an emergency? The Mormon Church tells…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month January 2010
Populism is so last century, says John Robb
Dated nostalgia for populist movements and progressive government reform — that legacy thinking is utterly useless, as a strategy for success, given the rise of a dominant and sovereign global system that doesn’t have any governing body to appeal to.…
Senate cranky at Bernanke. Geithner bad mouths Obama
Bernanke Senate confirmation in peril. The vote has been delayed, always a telling signal that the votes might not be there. Geithner reportedly told Wall Street that Obama is sacrificing good policy for politics. Most illuminatingly, Treasury has twice not…
Passivhaus. Requires almost no heat. Even in winter
Treehugger has a slide show explaining how it’s done. It is hard to believe, but this “mountain hut” in Austria needs next to no heating; it is all done with body heat, cooking heat and passive solar heat. it is…
Coming mortgage pain
Calculated Risk This chart shows the expected payment shock coming in 2010 and 2011 from Option ARMs. This chart includes projected increases in LIBOR (if LIBOR stays low, the shock will not be as high), and the recast due to…