By Kim on September 30, 2008
On a day when fear ran rampant around “the markets”, some distraction from the Apocalypse might come from considering horror movies. Incidentally, lots of the pre-tribulationist Rapture watchers in the US have been expecting the world to end on Rosh [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Disasters, Film, TV, Video etc, Markets, USA | Tagged Apocalypse, David Lynch, financial markets, horror movies, Mulholland Drive, pre-tribulationist, Rapture, Rosh Hashanah, scary movies, TARP, us economy |
By Kim on September 30, 2008
The Nancy Pelosi speech that made the Republicans cry: Context in this post about the Congressional rejection of TARP.
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged Bush administration, credit crisis, financial markets, George W. Bush, GOP, henry paulson, House Democrats, House Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Paulson bailout, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Robert Merkel on September 30, 2008
If this is true, we’re in even deeper climate trouble than we thought: The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Science | Tagged arctic ocean, clathrate gun hypothesis, Climate change, methane, methane clathrate |
By Robert Merkel on September 30, 2008
Australia’s total greenhouse emissions, assuming a 450ppm target and “backstop technology”. Source: Garnaut Review Final Report, Figure 23.6
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment | Tagged ALP, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, climate change policy, contraction and convergence, emissions trading, Garnaut final report, Garnaut Report, Garnaut Review, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Ross Garnaut, Rudd government, Treasury modelling |
By Phil on September 30, 2008
I thought I’d do this quick post to note the passing of Tim Dunlop’s Blogocracy Blog at News Ltd. This will be the last weekend open thread; in fact, it will be the last thread of any sort here at [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media | Tagged Blogging, blogocracy, blogosphere, blogs, political blogging, tim dunlop |
By tigtog on September 30, 2008
Vote count: Democrats: 141 Yea, 94 Nay Republican: 66 Yea, 132 Nay The Times – Analysis: bailout vote calls Hank Paulson’s bluff Negotiators had worked all weekend to accommodate some of the doubts of conservative Republicans who objected to such [...]
Posted in Disasters, Law, Markets, USA | Tagged bailout, corporate welfare, execs, financial sector, global economy, golden parachutes, hank paulson, meltdown, negotiators, outlay, Republicans, stock market, superficial changes, TARP, taxpayer funds, taxpayers, us treasury secretary, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 30, 2008
It’s out today. LP bloggers will have more during the day as it’s digested, but here’s an open thread for instant analysis and commentary. Please also feel free to link in comments to other posts or articles. By way of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, International, Markets | Tagged ALP, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, climate change policy, climate scientists, emissions trading, Garnaut final report, Garnaut Report, Garnaut Review, Kevin Rudd, Labor, open letter, Penny Wong, Ross Garnaut, Rudd government, Treasury modelling |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2008
I discussed some of the issues around paid parental leave in an earlier post. The Productivity Commission has now released its interim report, recommending a model which would see the government pay for 18 weeks of parental leave at the [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Parenting, Policy | Tagged ALP, baby bonus, Industrial Relations, Labor, paid parental leave, parental leave, parental leave report, productivity commission, Rudd government, social policy, welfare policy, welfare system, workplace equity |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2008
The question’s in the air at the moment. In the Australian blogosphere, John Quiggin thinks the financial markets crisis has killed it off, while Nicholas Gruen is (rightly in my view) more skeptical. [In response to commenters, Quiggin goes on [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bush administration, christopher dodd, credit crisis, economic management, economic sociology, federal reserve, financial markets, henry paulson, market bailout, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political sociology, social democracy, socialism, sovereign wealth funds, sub prime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Washington consensus |
By tigtog on September 29, 2008
Working on the picture being worth a thousand words concept, Pundit Kitchen (from the ICHC team) encourages reader submissions. It does tend to lean leftish, which doesn’t bother me, but if it bothers you then leave a link to contrarian [...]
Posted in Blogging, Levity, Media, Photography, Politics, The Web | Tagged AIG, bailout plan, George W. Bush, ICHC, LOLmacros, LOLspeak, McCain, nixon, Palin, Paulson, US election |
By dk.au on September 29, 2008
Social scientists can be a weird lot sometimes. The latest round of weirdness comes from the Lowy Institute, whose 2008 poll was released today, 8 weeks after the polling concluded. The official line on the climate change questions is that, [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Media, Policy, Polls | Tagged climate denial, Lowy Institute poll, polling |
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