Top 20 Oil Projects Put Investors’ Billions at Risk

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Aug 16, 2014 An oil industry think tank warns that high-cost extraction projects failing to match oil demand with global emissions reduction targets could waste $91 billion of investors’ money over the next decade. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Oil Companies Take Trillion Dollar Gamble

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network May 9, 2014 Oil companies are using investors' money on high-risk extraction projects based on the dubious belief that oil prices will go on rising, and with little regard for climate change factors. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Where ‘Canabusiness’ Goes, Wall Street’s Sure to Follow

Staff / Truthdig Jan 22, 2014 Wall Street's fat cats will be just fine with Americans rolling fat joints en masse once the other 48 states go the way of Colorado and Washington on the marijuana legalization issue. Sure enough, as Capital New York's Joanna Molloy put it, "Marijuana is going corporate." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Documentary Filmmaker Marije Meerman

BLANK Jan 12, 2014 Through testimony from the people who built it, Dutch filmmaker Marije Meerman gives us a singular view into the dark and dangerous future of investment and trade. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: I Is for Ideology

By Michael Hudson Nov 30, 2013 Ideology: A set of assumptions so appealing that one looks at their abstract logic rather than how the world actually works. (See Insanity.) Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Buying a House Is a Bad Idea

Staff / Truthdig Oct 16, 2013 If the housing crisis wasn't enough to turn you off of buying real estate, listen to economist Robert Shiller: Houses are poor investments, and they pretty much always have been. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Norway’s Billions Could Go Into Renewables

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Oct 14, 2013 Norway is on the brink of instigating a potentially world-changing approach to climate change if it goes ahead with a plan to invest billions of dollars in global renewable energy projects. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Investment Crisis Midwifing the Ongoing Recession

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 10, 2013 Investment in what experts call "real inputs" -- structures and machines that enable and boost future output and productivity -- is one way an economy grows over time. No wonder, then, that an economic crisis occurred just decades after the share of national income going to investment began declining during the start of the neoliberal era, around 1980, UMass-Amherst professor Gerald Friedman writes in Dollars & Sense. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Why We Need an Investment Budget

Robert Reich / Truthdig Feb 13, 2013 Part of the president’s State of the Union message and a portion of his second term agenda apparently will focus on public investments in education, infrastructure and basic R&D. That’s good news. But how do we fund these investments when discretionary spending is being cut to the bone in order to reduce the budget deficit? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Apple Tete-a-Tete With Twitter (Update)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 28, 2012 In the race to build the most widely used and technologically redundant social network out there, Apple has considered investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Twitter. (Or not.) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

China’s Economic Growth Slows

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 13, 2012 Growth for the world’s largest exporter hit its slowest pace in three years as demand for Chinese products waned in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere, prompting the country’s leaders to encourage investment with stimulus measures. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Krugman: What Is Wealthy Mitt Hiding?

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 9, 2012 "Like father, like son" the old saying goes. But according to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's latest Op-Ed, Mitt Romney is nothing like George Romney, as far as wealth and the disclosure of it are concerned. And that is not a good thing. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )