Today in the LA Times, Jay Famiglietti, a scientist who oversees the data gathered by the pair of gravity-measuring satellites known as GRACE, and who as a result has as good an understanding as anyone of California's groundwater supplies, revealed that California has but one year left of water: As difficult as it may beContinue reading “Good news for the world; bad news for California?”
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Unstable jobs the new norm: LA + NY Times
Tiffany Hsu, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has this year done a terrific job of documenting changes in the nature of work today, especially here in California. Her conclusion to a recent piece on how "non-employees" (aka free-lancers) are becoming a powerful force deserved the lede I thought: The number of so-called non-employersContinue reading “Unstable jobs the new norm: LA + NY Times”
Metaphor watch: Cliches get Obama in trouble again
As Matt Iglesias (channeling Paul Krugman) points out, the fact that the Obama administration used misleading, overused metaphors to describe the problems afflicting the American economy has a lot to do with the wide-spread but false perception that their efforts to revive the economy made it worse. Here's Krugman: I still don’t know why theContinue reading “Metaphor watch: Cliches get Obama in trouble again”
American Have-Nots: Too poor to afford Hollywood?
The collapse in revenue generated by the entertainment business has analysts thinking deeply: The anemic economy…is widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, making it tougher for some consumers to justify paying for cable or tossing a new DVD into the shopping cart. "Right now it is a tale of two cities," [Craig]Continue reading “American Have-Nots: Too poor to afford Hollywood?”
Hardly Working: The economy today, by Steve Brodner
Steve Brodner, one of the hardest-working and most-talented pencil artists of our time, is moving away from his once-lovely Drawger site…but he's still putting up fascinating work on his own site. To wit — Hardly Working, his depiction of the economy for lots and lots of us: http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch the full episode. See more NeedContinue reading “Hardly Working: The economy today, by Steve Brodner”
Nature Notes: The World Economy, by Peter Brookes
Peter Brookes of the Sunday Times offers a field guide to the world economy. Funny stuff, about a not-so-funny reality. That's a feat… (h/t: Andrew Sullivan)
Kit Stolz 