Economics

Let me nominate the following as perhaps the most important comments made in the year 2004: Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a Princeton University geologist, speaking at the American Chemical Society meeting said, for Thanksgiving 2005: “Give thanks for a century of cheap and plentiful oil…The exploration game is essentially over…We are unable to find new oil at the rate society or ...

American Demographics, a publication that measures the whimsies of populations segments and doles out marketing advice, put out an interesting June edition that focused mainly on the divisions that mark US society. One article, “The Second Coming of Age,” was about what’s ahead with the aging of the Baby Boom generation. Frankly, it’s not a particularly pretty sight. The sardonic ...

Here’s an interesting skirmish in the global economics and politics of the drug industry. An organization that is deeply involved in funding HIV drug disbursement to developing countries is rattling the cage of the FDA. They’re putting pressure on to get the US FDA to approve a three-in-one pill for HIV treatment made by an Indian pharmaceutical company. The drugs ...

I can’t get the article “The Chinese Century” out of my mind. To my way of thinking, it’s got some awesome implications for all Americans—not 20 years from now, but today—and for the future of the conquest of cancer. No, seriously!