As Green Seniors become increasingly aware of the stresses placed upon all of Earth's resources by today's high-consumption society, the last thing they want is to be an unwitting participant via their pension funds. Retirement funds are supposed to be invested conservatively. Retirees want the mone ...

Oil prices plunge on signs of consumption curb Posted by admin on June 22, 2008 under Investment and Business NEW YORK, May 29 (Xinhua) — Crude futures plunged more than 4 U.S. dollars a barrel

So I've been working on this massive paper for my last class. The class is Consumption/Consumerism, the paper is, as you may have guessed from the subject line, about the effects of sumptuary laws in Tokugawa Japan on the culture. I have several problems: 1. Thus far, I've been writing to get someth ...

China sovereign wealth fund overseas investment quota now at 90 ...

Given a $1/gallon gas tax--phased in over several years--this would be real money....Maybe we should take Chinese drivers to the international criminal court. Maybe we should sue OPEC for. . . trying to make money....Raise your other hand if you are happy that high oil prices--abetted by our profligate consumption--empowers tyrants in Caracas and Tehran. We could use the money....

Taiwan new govt to ease 40 pct restriction on China-bound ...

Call a Recession a Recession Filed under: Purely Political, Current Events — jpmahoney49 @ 9: ... = consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports). I’ll be really honest ... and put all of it into bonds. That sounds like an investment problem to me. I’m sure government spending’

Ergo, they rely on borrowings from friends, banks or even money-lenders (debt). But there’s a problem....And not everyone has enough of their own money (equity) to put into their business and grow it....Or should fiscal policy be used to provide tax breaks so that more money is put in the hands of consumers and hopefully, this money goes either into consumption (...