Bytes in the Margin

Market forces could be used to clean up power plants in China by encouraging the use of cleaner burning coas. We need China to clean up its power sector if we want to make a real dent in global Carbon emissions. On CARMA, you can see the best publicly available data on the Chinese power sector's ...

If you're trying to figure out why we're in the financial mess we are in, I highly recommend reading the report linked below. From what I can gather, its a systemic failure, and one cause came from relaxing lending standards. While it helped many people who couldn't afford a home afford one, a lot of them, ...

"publications that see large chunks of their readership drop away due to an offense to a community might self-censor to avoid further damage to their balance sheet. I don’t think this threat outweighs the need of citizens to have a way to express their own viewpoints in opposition."There's some evidence that one of the Danish papers ...

Al Gore is calling on el presidente to rescind the Patriot Act:
He said terrorism-fighting tools granted after Sept. 11, 2001, amount to a partisan power grab that has led to the erosion of the civil liberties of all Americans.
The Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, said Monday that while he's not ready ...

Courtesy of my friend Sandy:
It's the story of Carol Mosley who was bringing up 3 white men on her own all of them were congressmen the youngest one was old She met a man by the name of sharpton who had three pols of his own and they knew they must somehow beat up Clark and...