Have you heard about High Frequency Trading? HFT is sweeping, purely speculative financial transactions that have been made possible by huge leaps in technology. Done by super-fast computers, using mathematical algorithms, HFT searches millions of prices at lightning speeds and places bets automatically. Transaction times are measured in milliseconds, as the global network of “trading […]
Great Depression
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earthday-ecopoem # 11
“A major study commissioned by theBritish government concludes in itsyesterday report that rapid andsubstantial spending to combatglobal warming is needed to averta catastrophic reduction in worldwideproductivity on the scale of the GreatDepression that could devastate foodsources, cause widespread deaths andturn hundreds of millions of people in-to refugees.” – Los Angeles Times, Oct. 31, 2006 our […]
