Current Reading List for Housing and Financial Crisis

A post to store my reading list for why my 401k is shrinking faster than the world's glaciers:

• For general consumption, This American Life stars us off with a Giant Pool of Money then covers credit default swaps (CDS).


• Michael Panzer's Financial Armageddon, which is a blog and the title of his prescient book. Chapters 1 and 6 are especially relevant.


• Nouriel Roubini's 12 Steps (PDF version) and more at a Foreign Policy Passport blog post.

Esquire to publish "e-ink" cover

I want one, preferably several, to disassemble and hack up.

Esquire to publish "e-ink" cover | FP Passport

Satellite Imagery of Burma

Tuesday Map: Burma's cyclone aftermath | FP Passport

Reminds me of the images after the tsunami in Indonesia and after Hurricane Katrina.

Time to Bail on Blogger.com?

Blogspot hasn't really kept up with it's competition. Time to move to Wordpress?
Is Google Neglecting Blogger?

Also, Facebook is better for sharing links.

Water, Food, Fossil Fuels

On-going post on a vicious interconnected, inflationary web:

• higher oil prices -> higher food prices


• water shortage -> higher food prices, food shortages


• water shortage -> higher fossil fuel consumption


• higher natural gas prices -> higher fertilizer prices


• richer, eating more meat -> more feedstock, more water, more energy


• bad monetary and fiscal policies -> monetary inflation

X factor that connects them all: global climate change/global warming

Bad American Fiscal and Monetary Policy:
Rice, death and the dollar
The Economy: Something's Got to Give

Water:
A Drought in Australia, a Global Shortage of Rice - New York Times
Water shortage worst in decades, official says - California dreaming, of water

Food Shortage:
Food Crisis Fuelling Global Instability
Global food shortages: a 'silent tsunami'
Global food Crisis
Emptying the breadbasket
Decades of Great Plains' wheat as king and low prices everywhere are over

Energy Peak/Plateau:
Plateau
Non-OPEC production of crude oil seems to have stalled, promising even higher prices at the pump.

Food and Energy:
Food Riots and Falling Russian Oil Production
Natural gas -> Fertilizer, Food (and fuel) for thought

Bottom Line:
Supply to meet demand? Or economists don't live in the real world, The new face of hunger and Why More Food Is Not the Answer
Cheap energy (oil, natural gas) and heavy fertilizer use can't go on forever:
The Rise of the Neo-Malthusians

I'm in Your Blog, Deconstructing Your Cliches

IEEE Spectrum: Snowclone Is The New Cliche is a look of some of the current internet cliches/memes going around.


moar funny pictures

Hamster-Powered Night Light

Hamster-Powered Night Light

Heh.

Also Rodent Powered Nightlight - Best of Weekend Projects

A Dog of a Goal

Something I've secretly wanted to do some really annoying dogs. [via The Offside Rules]

Like playing soccer a bit too much
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