Purchasing power and the US dollar

Size of GDP

Projected spending vs.projected GDP graph

Bank prime loan rates from 1950 to 2010

Comparing job changes in different recessions in US history

Current Trends Are Not Sustainable

This graph shows Government spending, expressed as a percent of GDP, in ten-year intervals for 1970 to 2080. The chart also shows Government receipts, expressed as a percent of GDP, as a line from 1970 to 2080.

Schumpeter

THE enrichment of previously poor countries is the most inspiring development of our time. It is also worrying. The environment is already under strain.

PARIS -- A fundamental change is needed in power generation, with a greater and more urgent investment required in renewa

Vision 2050:  The new agenda for business

Under the WBCSD's Vsion 2050 Project, twenty-nice WBCDSD member companies developed a vision of a world well on the way to sustainablility by 2050 and the pathways leading to that world.

Greece sneezed, and now most of Europe has a cold. The European debt crisis has already spread like a virus from Greece to Ireland and Portugal, and other countries are now at risk: Spain, and Italy are probable candidates for financial problems.