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Trickle-Up Economics-Forbes 0

Trickle-Up Economics-Forbes

Highly recommended short article in June 20th issue of Forbes. Titled “Trickle-Up Economics” and by David Armstrong Naazneen Karmali. Subtitle: “How low-tech, low-cost designs are helping the poorest farmers on Earth grow their way...

NYT calls for more aid for Africa 0

NYT calls for more aid for Africa

According to the New York Times lead editorial on April 25, Ghana is the new success story of Africa. Though still terribly poor, Ghana is a role model of stability. And its needs only…....

Nairobi’s Plastic Bags are Barking 0

Nairobi’s Plastic Bags are Barking

Sometime symptoms are confused with the disease that causes them. I would argue that litter is a symptom. According to an article in the April 7 New York Times (p. A4), scattered plastic bags...

Tsunami Danger…Tomorrow [updated] 0

Tsunami Danger…Tomorrow [updated]

[Great news! It didn’t happen. No big “global warming induced” wave. Lives saved but also little attention paid to the “Countdown to global catastrophe” environmentalist report (click link in title above to see article)....

Thinking Outside the Border Box 1

Thinking Outside the Border Box

The aid dollars pour out to assist those whose lives have been devastated by the tsunami. Millions of dollars will help provide food, clean water, medicine, and soon shelter and rebuilding infrastructure and businesses....

Ideas for Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil 0

Ideas for Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil

Homeschool students are debating a resolution calling for reducing dependence on foreign oil. I have spoke to at over a dozen Economic Thinking debate workshops designed to provid an introduction to economic concepts, and...