weSRCH.com - The State of Play of the Spanish PV sector

A policy & economic analysis of the PV boom in Spain and its consequences. In the run-up of the Spanish PV boom: Regulatory measures laying the foundation for an accelerated market growth. The boom phase of PV in Spain: The Royal Decree 661/2007 and its market impact. From boom to hard landing: The Royal Decree 1578/2008 and its market impact...

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Cure Your Financial & Economic Anxieties: Two Easy Reads

Do you feel not quite sure about your financial plan? Are you always anxious to stay ahead of changes in the economy? Does the news leave you concerned about your portfolio positioning for a recovery that will be: V-shaped, L-shaped, U-shaped, jobless, with a hard or soft landing, or, maybe that one may not come at all?

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Technology to the Rescue: Helping in Haiti

A week has passed since a massive 7.0 earthquake rocked the unprepared, economically adverse third-world country of Haiti, leaving it in total ruins. With the predicted death toll greater than 200,000 and over two million survivors squatting unoccupied land, fashioning shanty towns, and resorting to street slumber, it is hard to find a glimmer of h

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Internet Technology Information | inforMITiveChris.blogspot.

A week has passed since a massive 7.0 earthquake rocked the unprepared, economically adverse third-world country of Haiti, leaving it in total ruins. With the predicted death toll greater than 200,000 and over two million survivors squatting unoccupied land, fashioning shanty towns, and resorting to street slumber, it is hard to find a glimmer of..

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How to Buy a Home on a Land Contract | eHow.com

How to Buy a Home on a Land Contract. Buying a home on a land contract is a great alternative in today's economic and real estate climate. Credit ratings have taken a beating and homes are hard to sell. A land contract is a great way...

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Hard times ahead for recent R.I. grads | Rhode Island news |

Lori Marcotte, who graduated last month from Rhode Island College with a degree in communications, had hoped to land a job in public relations by now. But Marcotte ran into the worst economic recession since the 1930s. So she is living with her parents and working part-time at a Del’s Lemonade in South Attleboro.

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Corporations, Petro-States Snapping up Farmland

Entrenched and developing economic powers -- the U.K., China, South Korea, India and more -- have launched land rushes to outsource production of everything from staples like rice, wheat, corn and sugar to finance bubbles like biofuels. The hard numbers are alarming: in the last 6 months over 20 million hectares of arable land have been sold.

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Peggy Drexler: In the land of the lost: men hit hard when jo

From the cause of the crisis to the size of the debris field to the number of ads that begin "in these difficult economic times..." there is much about this recession that is new to us. We are on an unfamiliar road to an uncertain destination.

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Idea of the Day: What Do Friends Mean?

Monday | Today's idea: The rise of social media and the downturn in the economy have people thinking long and hard about the meaning of friends -- psychologically, socially and economically. The recession, anecdotal evidence suggests, is complicating and wrecking friendships across the land.

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Hard Times: Tiny town hit hard as main employer cuts jobs.

Sitting amid state forest lands 150 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, the county's population is just under 6,000. That small population makes it especially susceptible to economic swings. Earlier this year, it had the highest unemployment rate in Pennsylvania, slightly above 15 percent.

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