A prime example of the above mentioned investments is the Indian governments plan to invest almost $400B in road infrastructure projects by 2012 (notably the use of concrete in road building in India is a nascent trend). Initiatives such as this are not only not really discretionary at this ...
Today I did the laundry. I walked down to the laundrymat, ran my 2 week's worth of clothes through the super-size washer, and then walked back with them - still wet - to my side yard. Then I hung a bag of clothes pins in the middle of the clothesline I put up (for all the ...