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POPSDinner Bell Rings for Financial Feeding Frenzy AIG today revealed what many private-equity firms, banks and asset managers want to know about the company’s asset sales to pay back an $85 billion government loan: What’s for dinner? AIG CEO Edward Liddy put an end to the suspense today. Here is what AIG is putting on the block: the U.S. life, retirement and pensions businesses, the personal-lines property-casualty business and at least a minority stake in its foreign life insurance business. All of AIG’s non-insurance businesses, including aircraft leasing, consumer finance division, U.S. auto insurance, a reinsurance business and asset manager, are also likely to be put on the block.
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POPSAdam Smith Meets Climate Change I don't follow the debate on how to create carbon markets as closely as I'd like. But this is an interesting idea about dividing emissions permits into two classes--for people helping and people really helping. Another thing worth pointing out is that even if Brazil, India and China didn't sign on, they'd still end up adapting many of the technologies that carbon markets would force. Carbon caps, for example, would accelerate progress toward more efficient solar power. But once that technology is there, and the price is lower than hydrocarbons (which most people in the solar industry, at least, believe will happen) then it will make sense for India to slap solar panels on all their roofs too.
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POPSNOT OIL-CRISIS--PERMANENT SHORTAGE Just doing the math and projected growth pattern, it becomes clear that they will never be enough oil were we to continue with oil rather than alternatives to fossil fuels.
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POPSThe "Bear" Has Raised It's Head On Emerging Markets The slowdown in the global economy may have hit the US early. It has begun to spread abroad as real estate prices and export rates in nations include China fall into decline. While America has been early into a recession it may be early in an exit. If the housing market here is at the foundation of trouble in global markets, the benefit of any improvement in the situation should have its first impression here. For the last several years, what was good for China, Russia, and other markets still in early stages was bad for the US. There are only so many opportunities to go around. The screw has turned and the US markets are the most likely beneficiary.
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POPS"Gigante" en China Gigantes descubrimientos. National Geographic se ve obligada aún a desmentir la existencia de esqueletos gigantes en India. Un periódico del país asiático publicó la imagen diciendo que investigadores de la sociedad británica habían realizado el hallazgo.
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POPSUnited Nations Reform: Fact or Fiction? The United Nations promised international cooperation on eliminating the major threats to peace and security and the most serious impediments to the protection of human rights and human dignity. Sixty years after the UN officially came into existence, 24 October 1945, the trail is one of broken promises. While important successes have marked some of its paths, the international machine has been hijacked and manipulated to subvert the very causes it was intended to promote. A number of factors have forced UN reform to move much higher up on the global agenda than ever before: the exposure of the billion-dollar UN-run Oil-for-food scam, peacekeeper-rapists, and paralysis in the face of genocide in Sudan.However, in an environment where there is little, if any, consensus on the most critical issues of our time, the real game is one of finger-pointing. Undoubtedly, the "blame America first" will continue. http://www.eyeontheun.org/un-reform.asp
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POPSAtomic Deal With India and New Nuclear Arms Race More nuclear power plants and more nuclear weapons while pressuring Russia to do less. Spoken like a good hypocrite. In the waning days of Bush's treachery, more weapons and more deals shoved down the throat of the world.
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POPS KeywordSpy KeywordSpy is a search engine tool which tells you the exact terms and phrases that are driving the most traffic to your competitors' websites, helping you increase targeted traffic and lower your cost-per-acquisition.
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POPSOil demand isn't about us We've managed to knock down our driving and fuel consumption while, impressively, growing our economy 3.3%. But going forward, China and India will be huge consumers of oil. Any efficiency gains we can make will pay off.
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POPSElectronic Waste- Highly Toxic Most of Europe's and Americas e-waste is send off to far away first nations already under extreme strain, and as a result poison those who live and work around our phones and TV's etc. No mandatory recycling demanded by our western leaders. Take responsibility with all you buy and consume. Change politicians,get mad,act consequent.
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