One of the many features of our great free market capitalist world that we started to build with the advent of the industrial revolution is the unbreakable faith in progress.
The belief that our lives will get better, our economies bigger, our knowledge greater, we will just keep having more and more of everything. Anything that challenges this view, even if only temporarily, is seen as something unnatural.
Tag Archives: Economy
Credit rating
My friend from New York works for a credit rating agency. I would like to see her expert opinion about the financial prospect of an imaginary company.
Sustainable self indulgence
As I was sitting in the sky on my way to Thailand, I had to watch several times the same commercial for Air Canada. It was boasting about their achievement in improving ‘sustainability’. They shed some weight from their airplanes to improve fuel efficiency by 30%. They did it for the planet.
The harm government services cause
The following is a reply to this comment that just grew too long. (Chris is a Canadian ex-pat living in the US)
Chris,
I love this conversation. We very quickly got to the heart of the big libertarian question. I do not think that I will be able to answer it for you in this comment, but I hope I will get there at some point.
All I can do here and now is answering the easy questions and asking some difficult ones.
Our scary future
Just watched a segment on “The Source” discussing the brilliance of the Bloomberg Big Gulp ban idea. Continue reading →
What can we learn from Greece?
What lesson can I possibly suggest that has not yet been ruminated over in the media countless of times? I think I’ve seen them all. I learned: Continue reading →