Category Archives: Journal

Sporadic life narration and general comments. If I took to standing on street corners blurting stuff at passers by, it would be something like this, but shorter and less coherent. Or not.

China Cuts Rare Earth Export Quota 72%, May Spark Trade Dispute With U.S.

Posted on Thu, Sep 2, 2010 by paul

From bloomberg.com: Shipments will be capped at 7,976 metric tons, down from 28,417 tons for the same period a year ago… Rare earths are a group of chemically similar metallic elements, including lanthanum, cerium, neodymium and europium. They are used … Continue reading →

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Return of the Invisible Hand

Posted on Wed, May 19, 2010 by paul

We are stuck with two big crises that we can’t get free of. The first is the financial meltdown. The second is the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (coming soon to a beach near you). The common threads … Continue reading →

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Katyn: A Damned Place

Posted on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 by paul

A couple of years ago I wrote about what happened in Katyn in 1940. For the seventieth anniversary of the event, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had become the first Russian leader to join the Poles in commemorating the event. … Continue reading →

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