Month February 2011

US Postal Service may default

Retiree health care benefits are a major part of the problem as is declining mail volume. Why mail a letter when you can email or text someone? They are threatening to default if Congress doesn’t allow them to put less…

A cautionary note on Egypt

Jim Kunstler says the revolts are fueled by increasing popularion size, decreasing resources (including food) and mismanagement of contraction by governments. Further, people were probably jubilant in the early days of the French Revolution but it ended with the Reign…