From the category archives:

sustainability

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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Have you ever thought about how investing will change over the next century?  What will the investment landscape look like in 2110, or even in 2080?
I have to admit, I don’t think I’ve ever thought about this specific question before.  But it occurred to me when I heard an analyst from London talking about what [...]

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“Saudi Arabia isn’t just running out of oil — it’s running out of water.  So is the whole region.”  So explains Jeff Rubin in his latest book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller (2009) (read my review of Jeff Rubin here).
If you thought it was bad enough to see the [...]

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Are you liking the new frugality trend?  Get used to it.  Frugality is “in” and here to stay – but not because the U.S. housing and credit markets collapsed and 30% of everyone’s savings have disappeared.  According to Jeff Rubin, ex-senior economist at CIBC World Markets, the growing scarcity in the world’s fossil fuels supply [...]

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