John Robb: Gold Bubble–Gold Not Welcome in New Era

Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini is slamming the run up in the gold market: it’s the new subprime bubble only worse.  It’s leveraged 25-40x not just 5-10x.  It’s just another example of the global market’s central planning directorate in action.  Another massive/bad investment by those with all the decision making power.  It may also be a good …

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Graphic: Mike Bloomberg Tests Cyber-Perceptions

Source Phi Beta Iota:  He certainly looks Presidential.  Unfortunately, he’s also at 2 strikes between the inauthentic manipulators that concocted NO LABELS and the hedge-fund slight-of-hand experts behind Americans Elect.  We like Mike Bloomberg.  If he can connect to reality and learn from the collective intelligence/open space communities, he could and should be President.  Seven …

John Steiner: Rescuing the American Dream

Trending today– Lakoff: How to Rescue the American Dream from the GOP’s Nightmare The Republicans are redefining “democracy”–but it’s time to remember what the real dream of democracy meant. George Lakoff and Glenn Smith AlterNet, 28 July Read the article… And here is the advertisement slated to start running in various newspapers. The American Dream.  …

Search: “True Cost”

True Cost is called by some a triple-bottom line (physical cost, ecological cost, social cost).  Others talk about true cost to own (including all related fuels or batteries, toxic side effects etc), others talk about cradle to grave accounting to include complete recycling.  Technically, true cost accounting prohibits negative external costs from being ignored.  A …