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Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $, praxis, tips on Jan 12th, 2010
Remember that delicious movie, The Devil Wears Prada? My favourite scene was the one where Miranda scorningly points out that while it may be politically correct amongst intelligentsia to dismiss fashion, at the end of the day, the colours we all select from our re-used, recycled clothing were determined months and months before by the [...]
Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $ on Dec 14th, 2009
Live-blogging cnbc’s airing of Buffett and Greed responding to questions from Columbia Business school
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Q: Was Greed at the root of the financial crisis?
Buffett: We’ve got the engine that was ever devised. Greed will continue. But what drives the system is the equality of the opportunity.
Gates: The best systems are ones [...]
Posted in econ 101, praxis, smart shopping on Nov 14th, 2009
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Massive DISCLAIMER – see masthead – I am not a financial planner. I want to post a wee bit in the coming days on the topic of ethical investing. But these posts should in no way be construed as advice or recommendations. Do your own homework, or contact a licensed financial advisor/planner. These [...]
photo credit: Jaroslaw Pocztarkski
If you haven’t heard about it yet, you will over the coming months: Bees are disappearing and the implications for our food supply are a whole lot scarier than you probably think.
Eat apples? check
Eat carrots? check
Onions? check
Blueberries? check
Garlic? check
Broccoli? Tomatoes? Squash? Cherries? Almonds? What about oranges?
Each of these foods among countless more, [...]
Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $, praxis on Oct 15th, 2009
I love when disparate elements converge. Yesterday, a twitter pal asked for info on investing ethically. Today is Blog Action Day and the topic is Climate Change. (check out Gordon Brown’s blog post on the topic, or The White House’s post, er, but they’re not much better than mine – wicked grin) And the rapidly [...]
Posted in Life In Yellowknife, Uncategorized, econ 101 on Sep 22nd, 2009
I grew up in a mining town. When I was a kid, it was gold mining. Now it’s diamond mining. Anyway, back in the day, Yellowknife had two working gold mines, Giant and Con. Any local readers remember the Miner’s Mess and the Rec? Yep, Yellowknife had an element [...]
Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $ on Sep 6th, 2009
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I’m going in to my office for a couple hours tomorrow for a project that came up at 4:30pm on Friday. I was caught completely off guard when my manager encouraged me to enter the hours into peoplesoft so that I get paid overtime.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have kids, or maybe [...]
Posted in econ 101, feminism, philosophy of $ on Jul 12th, 2009
Photo Credit: wpwend42 Creative Commons.
Mostly when I was a kid, I was doing what kids do – piano lessons, school, learning to skate, reading, discovering boys, makeup and Farah Fawcett.
But in the background there were certain events that shaped my subconscious sense of the world:
A continuous, vague terror that the world would be blown [...]
Posted in econ 101, smart shopping on Jun 29th, 2009
When I was a kid, China scared the crap out of me. People who shared my faith, Christians, got tortured there. So did lots of other people. Everything’s different now. We can’t *but* buy goods made there. Here are some plain english 101s about their economy.
Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $, praxis on Jun 14th, 2009
I’m here at the Explorer Hotel in Yellowknife, which has wifi! (and offers wild goose pate – but isn’t that a contradiction in terms?)
Peter Victor authored the book Managing without Growth in which he “challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy”. Peter [...]
