Tag: australia

September 6, 2012 0

Australia Department Store Sales Slump 10.2 Percent; Retail, Food Store Bankruptcies; Reflections on Housing and Commodities Bust

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For details please see By 2015 Hard Commodity Prices Will Collapse; Australia’s Mining Boom Dies (and the Official Denials Start) Wrapping up the disaster in Australia, please see Michael Feller’s synopsis on Macro Investor Being a Bear is Not "unAustralian" . Peruse the Reserve Bank governor’s recent remarks to the senate or listen to the commentariat on talkback radio and it would seem that Australia’s economy has become victim of nothing more than an insidious rogue gloom-and-doomerism that threatens to hurt the nation, or worse. At its worst, this anti-half-glass-empty rhetoric smacks economic McCarthyism

August 31, 2012 0

Raymond on Ryan and Romney

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david lewis said… Is Eli headed for the slammer? Read the RNC thinly veiled attack on the integrity and motivation of climate scientists , as stated in the recently adopted RNC national platform: "We must restore scientific integrity to our public research institutions and remove political incentives from publicly funded research"These words appear on the America’s Natural Resources page which those interested in the potential fate of our chief, the Rabett, reach by clicking on a link on the 2012 Republican Platform homepage .The full 62 page " We Believe in America " pdf does not contain these words

August 20, 2012 0

Catbird Seats

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Posted by EliRabett at 5:36 PM   3 comments: Anonymous said… It’s interesting how Australian ecology differs from the ecologies of other continents, in terms of the nature of its trophic webs. The geological isolation of Australia, together with its ancient, nutrient-poor soils, mean that there is a great skew toward the lower trophic levels: that is, there ain’t much room for a large biomass of top predators on the continent