An Ounce Of Gold Measured In Tons Of $100 Bills (Mogambo Guru)

Richard Daughty, the angriest guy in economics -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2006 -- Having consumed enough tranquilizers, mood elevators and anti-depressants that I am barely conscious and involuntar ...

The Evolution Will Be Televised (And Maybe Podcast, Too) (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain Sept. 5, 2006 -- Observation. There is perhaps no more valuable tool in the wo ...

Population Explosion Threatens To Trap Africa In Cycle Of Poverty (Xan Rice)

· World's poorest nations set to triple in size · Uganda leads growth that can change face of earth Xan Rice -- Guardian KAMPALA, Uganda -- Aug. 25, 2006 -- There are 27.7 million people in Uganda. B ...

Huge Oil Find Could Be Good News For U.S. Reserves (AP)

Well Drilled In Gulf Of Mexico OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Results from a deep-water test well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest a new pool of oil and gas that could boost U.S. reserves by as much as 50 percent ...

Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong (Rob Hopkins)

Rob Hopkins -- Energy Bulletin/Transition Culture Sept. 4, 2006 -- I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: ...

Ice Core Evidence Of Human Impact On CO2 In Air (Reuters)

(Reuters) -- Air from the oldest ice core confirms human activity has increased the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere to levels not seen for hundreds of thousands of years, scient ...

Yield-Curve Recession Indicator Flashes Yellow (Caroline Baum)

Caroline Baum (Bloomberg) -- Sept. 5, 2006 -- Unless the shape of the Treasury yield curve normalizes in the next few months, going from its current negative to a more normal positive slope, the U.S. ...

U.S. Home-Price Gains Slow As Housing Slump Deepens (Kathleen M. Howley)

"The wheels are coming off the housing market" Kathleen M. Howley (Bloomberg) -- Sept. 5, 2006 -- U.S. home-price growth slowed during the second quarter from a year earlier in the sharpest three-mon ...

Tropical Storm Florence forms (AP)

(AP) -- Tropical Storm Florence formed Tuesday in the open Atlantic, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2006 hurricane season.

The End of Eden (Michael Powell)

James Lovelock Says This Time We've Pushed the Earth Too Far Michael Powell -- Washington Post ST. GILES-ON-THE-HEATH, England -- Sept. 2, 2006 --Through a deep and tangled wood lies a glade so lovel ...

Empire in the Mirror (Manuel Valenzuela)

Empire -- A Tribe on Steroids Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2006 -- Inside the belly of the beast can the harbinger of what is to come be seen, for the internal machinations of the P ...