Iran: The Diminishing Difficulty of Enriching Uranium – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in March 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Acquisition, Antiaircraft Guns, Barbed Wire, Desert, Enriching Uranium, Enrichment Of Uranium, Iran, Jitters, Nuclear Weapons, Nytimes, Path

In the Iranian desert, at a sprawling industrial site ringed by barbed wire and antiaircraft guns, a shift in the enrichment of uranium is producing global jitters because it could shorten Iran’s path to the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
The Diminishing Difficulty of Enriching Uranium – NYTimes.com

‘State of Catastrophe’ After Chile Quake – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 27th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Americas, Disasters, Catastrophe, Central Chile, Chile, Earthquake, Highways And Bridges, Magnitude Earthquake, Nytimes, Pacific Basin, Path, Quake, Rubble, Swath, Waves

A deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, ripping apart buildings, highways and bridges and leaving a path of smoky rubble across a long swath of this earthquake-tested country before sending waves rumbling across the Pacific Basin.
‘State of Catastrophe’ After Chile Quake – NYTimes.com

Risk Report Warns on Asset Price Collapse – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in January 17th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Geopolitical, Asset Price, Asset Prices, Blog, China, Collapse, Glance, Global Risks, Globalization, Globe, Nytimes, Path, Relapse, Retrenchment, Risk Report, Slowdown, Systemic Risk, World Economic Forum

Just a few weeks before Davos, the World Economic Forum has released its Global Risks Report 2009, in which it underlines not only an increasing systemic risk across the globe, but the potential for a collapse in asset prices, a slowdown in China and a retrenchment from globalization. The trick to avoiding a financial relapse, [...]

China will take a generation to catch up with the West – Times Online

Posted by Matt in November 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Age Structure, Ageing, China Economic, Convergence, Earth Age, Earth Structure, Extreme Scenario, Germany, Maths, Path

In the extreme scenario in which US income per head remains the same forever more, and China’s income per head grows by a constant 8 per cent a year, convergence would happen in 2045. But this is silly maths.
The US will not stand still and China’s economic path is likely to be punctured sooner or [...]

What’s So Bad About a $1.4 Trillion Deficit? — Politics Daily

Posted by Matt in October 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Budget Experts, Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget, Creditors, Deficit Hawk, Deficit Spending, Economic Recovery, Hawk, Interest Rates, Medicaid, Medicare, Path, Politics, Public Debt, Recession, Three Generations, Trillion

…let’s consider what is so bad about a $1.4 trillion deficit.
When asked this question, Maya C. MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), said, “Nothing for one year.” However, as a committed deficit hawk, she warned that “if deficits even close to that large last over the next years, it is [...]

America’s banana republic economy

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Banana Republic, Blog Archive, Budget, Calm Before The Storm, Currency, Decline, Dollar, Economic Historians, Economy, Financial Situation, Hawk, Investors, Judd Gregg, New Hampshire, Path, Republican, Senator Judd Gregg

Then again, perhaps future economic historians will look back at this stage of the dollar’s decline as the currency calm before the storm. Because at some point, investors may suddenly realize that America’s already somewhat devalued currency should not be trusted.
As Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican and noted budget hawk, said recently, “We’re [...]

The next great crisis: America’s debt

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, U.S., Barack Obama, Collapse, Combatants, Common Names, Debt Crisis, Decade, Economy, Federal Debt, First Names, Nobel Laureate In Economics, Passion, Path, Paul Krugman, Paul Ryan, Political Poles, Pundit, Rapid Increase, Republican Congressman, Stimulus

At this rate, your share of the load will be $155,000 in a decade. How chronic deficits are putting the country on a path to fiscal collapse.
Normally Paul Krugman, the liberal pundit and Nobel laureate in economics, and Paul Ryan, a conservative Republican congressman from Wisconsin, share little in common except their first names and [...]

The Path of a Pandemic

Posted by Matt in May 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Autumn, Birds, Brother, Butcher, Flu, Globe, Holidays, Microbes, Pandemic, Path, Pig, Pigs, Slaughterhouse, Teenage Boy, Teenager, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2005, Virus

How one virus spread from pigs and birds to humans around the globe. And why microbes like the H1N1 flu have become a growing threat.
Around Thanksgiving 2005 a teenage boy helped his brother-in-law butcher 31 pigs at a local Wisconsin slaughterhouse, and a week later the 17-year-old pinned down another pig while it was gutted. [...]

The Fat Girl from Ipanema

Posted by Matt in April 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Americas, Brazil, Off-Topic, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beauties, Bikini Fat Girl, Bikinis Girls, Brazilian Girls, Brazilians, De Janeiro Brazil, De Moraes, Eneida, Everyday Course, Fat Beach Girls, Fat Girl, Fat Girls, Fat Girls Bikinis, First Verse, Fuller Figure, Garota De Ipanema, Girl From Ipanema, Girls Beach, Girls Bikinis, Girls From Brazil, Girls From Ipanema, Government Study, Guess, Ipanema Beach, Ipanema Girl, Ipanema Girls, Lt, Map Brazil, Mid 1960s, Musical Comedy, Norman Gimbel, Obesity, Path, Portugese, Rest Of The World, Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, Suntanned Beauties, Tiny Bikinis, Trend, Vinicius De Moraes

Americans shouldn’t really comment on fat Brazilian girls from Ipanema, but I can’t help myself. The girl from Ipanema is now fat.
But the chances of spotting suntanned beauties in tiny bikinis are getting smaller and smaller, according to a government study released this week. Research shows that the number of Brazilians suffering from obesity is [...]