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Chris Martenson Blogs http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog Chris Martenson's daily updates on the three "E"s -- economy, environment, and energy systems -- how they interact, and how they will impact our future. xx http://www.chrismartenson.com/bloghttp://www.chrismartenson.com/sites/all/themes/cm/images/cm-logo-xsm.pngChris Martenson BlogsChrisMartensonBlogshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotation The Emperor Has No Clothes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/wr3vSD5U-Dw/35184 <p><em>[Note: This is a recent Martenson Insider post which I am making public. A couple of members thought this topic deservbed wider attention and conversation and I agreed.  Thanks go to MikeP for the title change idea.] </em></p> <p>The NYT had an editorial this past weekend (Feb 6, 2010) that trotted out some dangerous mistruths about the deficit and framed the issue as a left vs. right political game.</p> <p>I hardly know where to start, but I will note that we've had massive accumulations of new debts under every single administration since the early 1980s, and that it hasn't seemed to matter which party has controlled which branches of government.  One could be forgiven for suspecting that, when it comes to deficit spending, there aren't two parties, but only one.</p> <p>The real truth is that we have a culture of reckless spending in DC that transcends either or both parties, and I always lose a bit of trust in those who attempt to paint it otherwise.  This is simply not a partisan issue. <span class='read-more'><a 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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/6Tnw2d6-quM/35154 <ul> <li>FSN News Hour</li> <li>Catherine Austin Fits with Max Keiser</li> <li>G7 Finance Ministers Dine Near Arctic Circle</li> <li>The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever</li> <li>U.S. Wage Growth: The Downward Spiral</li> <li>‘Don’t Be Evil,’ Meet ‘Spy on Everyone’: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google</li> <li>Contagion</li> <li>Greek Ouzo Crisis Escalates Into Global Margin Call As Confidence Ebbs</li> <li>Wyoming Governor Talks Energy In D.C.</li> <li>Rawlins WY Endorses Uranium Facility</li> <li>Cost An Obstacle To Building Nuclear Reactors</li> <li>Mining The Grid's Middle Mile</li> <li>Junin 6 Oil Field To Become a Russian–Venezuelan Joint Venture</li> <li>PetroChina To Particiate In Developing Halfaya Oil Field In Iraq</li> <li>Selection Trials Loom For $1.4bn Solar Flagships Program</li> <li>Palmer Secures Australia's "Biggest" Export Deal With China</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a 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Rating</li> <li>Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge</li> <li>Charting Europe's Crisis - Part 1</li> <li>In Japan, Crisis Looms As Economy Slips</li> <li>Germany Turns Up The Heat On Tax Evaders</li> <li>G7: Europe must rescue Greece</li> <li>Australian firm strikes $60B coal deal with China</li> <li>Dealing With Peak Oil</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-february-7/35115" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/78UjMuS7baWpWrM21gXuHgsA9Aw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/78UjMuS7baWpWrM21gXuHgsA9Aw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/78UjMuS7baWpWrM21gXuHgsA9Aw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/78UjMuS7baWpWrM21gXuHgsA9Aw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a 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href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/martensonreport/other-hand">On The Other Hand...</a></span></h5> <h3>Executive Summary</h3> <ul> <li>Recent economic news comes in three flavors: good, bad, and ugly.</li> <li>GDP, retail sales, and manufacturing surveys point up.</li> <li>Petroleum use has dropped to the same level it was at in the late 1990s, pointing down.</li> <li>State sales tax receipts, unemployment, and the federal budget deficit are ugly.</li> <li>The current expansionary track of monetary printing and deficit spending will continue until something external forces a contraction.</li> </ul> <p>Today we are experiencing many confusing and conflicting signals in the economy.  Perhaps conflicting signals are normal at a major turning point, and therefore we might be tempted to believe that we are about to embark on another vigorous leg of economic expansion.</p> <p>Here we'll explore these conflicting signals and see what we can make of them. <span class='read-more'><a 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More Homeowners Just Walk Away</li> <li>Housing Crisis Getting Uglier in 2010</li> <li>Michigan Continues Turning Paved Roads To Gravel</li> <li>New York's Hungry Children</li> <li>Study: Thousands of Utahns Must Choose Between Food Or Paying Rent</li> <li>More People Struggling To Stay Warm, Taxing Agencies (Detroit)</li> <li>U.S. Can't Make Quick, Deep, Budget Cuts: Geithner</li> <li>Moody's: US Rating Could Be Pressured by Deficit</li> <li>Schools Chancellor: State Budget Cuts Would Force 8,500 Layoffs</li> <li>Mass Layoffs By Year From 1996 Through 2009</li> <li>Phoenix OKs 2% Sales Tax On Food Items</li> <li>The Chickens Come Home To Roost</li> <li>Rare Earth Demand Rises, No Supply Increase Seen Outside China</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-february-3/34887" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-LvCmA5Zo8KrKwgu6s5Tge6wdd4/0/da"><img 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2010 15:25:38 +0000 DailyDigest 34709 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-30/34709 Sonora, CA: A Spectacular Event http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/9iM23o7nadY/34659 <p>Wow.</p> <p>Last night, more than 400 people packed into a sold-out opera hall for a 3-hour lecture and Q&A session, while quite a few were turned away for lack of space.</p> <p>The energy was incredible: focused, positive, scared, calm, determined, & eager.  It was all there. </p> <p>When I originally asked how many in the crowd had seen the <a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse"><em>Crash Course</em></a>, nearly 3/4ths of the hands went up.  Clearly, something is going on out here.  The organizers of the event, Cooper and Bob and a local group dedicated to sustainability (FOCUS), did an incredible job with the logistics, and, obviously, patiently setting the stage over the past several months.  Kudos!</p> <p>This event was extremely gratifying to me, because it showed that big ideas, even ones that would be labeled as "not happy ones" by our culture, have a secure and growing place in people's lives. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/sonora-ca-spectacular-event/34659" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0IWgJbT6ilIohunR3wnqt3_hSjk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0IWgJbT6ilIohunR3wnqt3_hSjk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0IWgJbT6ilIohunR3wnqt3_hSjk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0IWgJbT6ilIohunR3wnqt3_hSjk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=9iM23o7nadY:tEjlM6oPLCY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a 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Report On AIG Could Be The End Of Geithner</li> <li>Wall Street’s Liquidity Problem</li> <li>Overseas investments and the Dollar</li> <li>California: America’s First Failed State</li> <li>The Missing Volume</li> <li>Suspending Money Market Redemptions Is Now Legal; SEC Approves New Money Market Regulation In 4-1 Vote</li> <li>AIG Doc SEC Dubbed “Confidential” Until 2018</li> <li>Emerging Markets, Copper Tumble at Quantitative Tightening</li> <li>Davos 2010: Chinese Central Banker Zhu Min Warns Of New Asian Crisis</li> <li>Head of TARP Oversight: “Either we fix this problem going forward or the game really is over"</li> <li>A New Approach To Regulating Wall Street Could Be More Than Wishful Thinking</li> <li>OLS - Market Manipulation 2010</li> <li>Solar Shingles See the Light of Day</li> <li>IBM, Researchers Get 24M DOE Supercomputer Hours To Develop Controversial Lithium Air Battery</li> <li>The Food System and Resilience</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a 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2010) I gave a talk to a sold-out audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. The crowd was excellent, and I was thrilled to have the chance to deliver our message at this venue.</p> <p>I say ‘our message’ because so many of you helped to shape the talk, and, most importantly, practically forbade me from doing anything but delivering a no-holds-barred message.  So that’s what I did.</p> <p>Here are a couple of observations.  Five years ago I was delivering a version of this message in the basement community room in a local bank in Brattleboro, VT to very small audiences.  Yesterday, a half hour before the talk began, there were ~30 people waiting in a side room for a small chance at one standby ticket.</p> <p>Five years ago, the audiences were all ‘of an age.’  Now they include many more younger people and represent a much broader cross section of society, beliefs, professions, and income levels.</p> <p>My impression is that the tide is shifting, powerfully, and yesterday’s response proved to me that ideas matter, that people care, and that getting our collective act together is a rapidly-ascending priority for a growing group of people.  Whoever says that there's no interest anymore in big ideas is flat-out wrong. </p> <p>So thank you to everyone that came, and, if you couldn’t make it in, I’m sorry, and I hope that we get a chance to meet soon elsewhere.  If you can make it to the Sonora event, tomorrow night (Thursday, 6-9:30), I’d love to see you there.</p> <p>Below is the speech I gave (not an exact transcript, but very close). <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/big-ideas-commonwealth-club-transcript/34570" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mtf9jtwLqyjj78-wBdrda69CtSc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mtf9jtwLqyjj78-wBdrda69CtSc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mtf9jtwLqyjj78-wBdrda69CtSc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mtf9jtwLqyjj78-wBdrda69CtSc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=wqSG8fCarNw:vsDeqO7anD8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=wqSG8fCarNw:vsDeqO7anD8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=wqSG8fCarNw:vsDeqO7anD8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=wqSG8fCarNw:vsDeqO7anD8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=wqSG8fCarNw:vsDeqO7anD8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=wqSG8fCarNw:vsDeqO7anD8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/wqSG8fCarNw" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/big-ideas-commonwealth-club-transcript/34570#comments Blog Chris Martenson's Blog Commonwealth club Economy Energy environment future ideas limits Peak Oil vision http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/34570 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:39:31 +0000 cmartenson 34570 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/big-ideas-commonwealth-club-transcript/34570 Daily Digest - January 27 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/j0o4Nf2bdAM/34543 <ul> <li>Home Depot to Cut 1,000 U.S. Jobs, Close Test Stores</li> <li>Verizon to Cut 13,000 Jobs as Businesses Reduce Lines</li> <li>Japan's debt at risk. Is U.S. next?</li> <li>Figures on government spending and debt</li> <li>Obama's tough spot on debt</li> <li>Officials say stimulus bill to cost $75B more</li> <li>Is L.A.On The Road To Bankruptcy?</li> <li>Nearly one in five U.S. households ran out of money to buy enough food at least once during 2009</li> <li>Welfare rolls up in 2009, more enroll in assistance programs</li> <li>Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012</li> <li>Public Pensions Look at Leverage Strategy</li> <li>Q+A-Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan tops $1 trillion</li> <li>India could be world's 'third largest economy by 2012'</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-27/34543" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9TbHGomiv4ox470t6JsfuJQVoOA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9TbHGomiv4ox470t6JsfuJQVoOA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9TbHGomiv4ox470t6JsfuJQVoOA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9TbHGomiv4ox470t6JsfuJQVoOA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=j0o4Nf2bdAM:TDQWBl8w_Q0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=j0o4Nf2bdAM:TDQWBl8w_Q0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=j0o4Nf2bdAM:TDQWBl8w_Q0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=j0o4Nf2bdAM:TDQWBl8w_Q0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=j0o4Nf2bdAM:TDQWBl8w_Q0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=j0o4Nf2bdAM:TDQWBl8w_Q0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/j0o4Nf2bdAM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-27/34543#comments Daily Digest Economy http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/34543 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:57 +0000 saxplayer00o1 34543 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-27/34543 Daily Digest - January 26 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/Xk8JvV0r0xQ/34511 <ul> <li>Bill Gates Warns Of Dystopian Future</li> <li>Ford to Begin Hiring at New Lower Wages</li> <li>Over 100 Debt, Price, Hype and Asset Bubbles Ready to Burst in 2010</li> <li>'Yo!' Planet Money Raps</li> <li>Huawei Points Way Into India</li> <li>Geithner On Move Your Money: Not A Good Idea</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-26/34511" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2szJAGH4bV0Zvn4MugeIQF0m4os/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2szJAGH4bV0Zvn4MugeIQF0m4os/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2szJAGH4bV0Zvn4MugeIQF0m4os/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2szJAGH4bV0Zvn4MugeIQF0m4os/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Xk8JvV0r0xQ:oBP4QyCHrMA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Xk8JvV0r0xQ:oBP4QyCHrMA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Xk8JvV0r0xQ:oBP4QyCHrMA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=Xk8JvV0r0xQ:oBP4QyCHrMA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Xk8JvV0r0xQ:oBP4QyCHrMA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=Xk8JvV0r0xQ:oBP4QyCHrMA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/Xk8JvV0r0xQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-26/34511#comments Daily Digest Ford India Huawei Geithner http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/34511 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:57:51 +0000 DailyDigest 34511 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-26/34511 An Evening with Chris in Sonora, CA http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/m8N-JlSSHEU/34508 <p>Chris is busy gearing up for his talk tonight at the Commonwealth Club, so we wanted to take a moment to remind our greater Bay Area readers of Chris's <a target="_blank" href="http://sierracrashcourse.com">public talk</a> on <strong>Thursday, January 28th at 6:30PM</strong> the Sonora Opera Hall in Sonora, CA.  <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/evening-chris-sonora-ca/34508" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VuQtKVN6icJxi7xx8GT-YZK0Nf0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VuQtKVN6icJxi7xx8GT-YZK0Nf0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VuQtKVN6icJxi7xx8GT-YZK0Nf0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VuQtKVN6icJxi7xx8GT-YZK0Nf0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=m8N-JlSSHEU:PGTYbk4wHHA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=m8N-JlSSHEU:PGTYbk4wHHA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=m8N-JlSSHEU:PGTYbk4wHHA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=m8N-JlSSHEU:PGTYbk4wHHA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=m8N-JlSSHEU:PGTYbk4wHHA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=m8N-JlSSHEU:PGTYbk4wHHA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/m8N-JlSSHEU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/evening-chris-sonora-ca/34508#comments Calaveras Chris Martenson's Blog Crash Course FoCuS Public Sonora Toulumne http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/34508 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:59:23 +0000 cmartenson 34508 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/evening-chris-sonora-ca/34508 Daily Digest - January 25 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~3/Q5tvLW5oejg/34451 <ul> <li>Obama Endorses Deficit Task Force</li> <li>The $700 Billion U.S. Funding Hole; Desperately Seeking A Very Indiscriminate Treasury Buyer</li> <li>Thoughts on the End Game</li> <li>Wal-Mart to Cut 11,200 Sam’s Club Jobs, Outsource Demonstrations</li> <li>Why are 86% of the NY Fed’s MBS Purchases Occurring During Option Expiration Weeks?</li> <li>Suicides Inside France Telecom Prompting Sarkozy Stress Testing</li> <li>Toyota Secures Lithium Supply in Argentina</li> <li>Appalachian States Should Look Beyond Coal</li> <li>Colorado Coal Miners Fear Losing Jobs if Access to Federal Lands Curbed</li> <li>Zoning Commission Takes Wind Moratorium Under Advisory</li> <li>Governor Aims to Revive Wind Tax Proposal</li> <li>North Dakota Coal-to-Fuel Plant is Still on Hold</li> <li>U.S. Refinery Rate Drop Shows Crisis in Downstream</li> <li>Imported from Asia: Ozone</li> <li>Water Pipeline Idea Interests Irrigation Districts</li> </ul> <p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-25/34451" target="_blank"><strong> read more »</strong></a></span> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X3aNzBpVKxYmXOyeSW6lojNLUPo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X3aNzBpVKxYmXOyeSW6lojNLUPo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X3aNzBpVKxYmXOyeSW6lojNLUPo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/X3aNzBpVKxYmXOyeSW6lojNLUPo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Q5tvLW5oejg:fGicQZUY-M4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Q5tvLW5oejg:fGicQZUY-M4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Q5tvLW5oejg:fGicQZUY-M4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=Q5tvLW5oejg:fGicQZUY-M4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?a=Q5tvLW5oejg:fGicQZUY-M4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ChrisMartensonBlogs?i=Q5tvLW5oejg:fGicQZUY-M4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChrisMartensonBlogs/~4/Q5tvLW5oejg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-25/34451#comments Daily Digest Obama deficit Treasury Wal-Mart lithium Appalachia coal http://www.chrismartenson.com/crss/node/34451 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:56:00 +0000 DailyDigest 34451 at http://www.chrismartenson.com http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/daily-digest-january-25/34451