Home » Economics (Page 155)
Category Archives: Economics
Exclusive: Whistleblower Accuses Exxon of ‘Fraudulent’ Behavior for Overvaluing Fracking Assets For Years
Exclusive: Whistleblower Accuses Exxon of ‘Fraudulent’ Behavior for Overvaluing Fracking Assets For Years ExxonMobil announced a $19.3 billion write-down on Tuesday, a big hit to a company reeling from depressed oil and gas prices and a rapidly changing global energy market. The write-down reduces the value of the assets on Exxon’s books. The announcement comes as part […]
The awkward class
The awkward class Time to talk about peasants, who I claim in Chapter 3 of my book A Small Farm Future will soon be returning to tend (or create) a small farm near you. Or may in fact include you or your descendants. This claim is at odds with most of what’s been written about rural trends […]
Where Energy Modeling Goes Wrong
Where Energy Modeling Goes Wrong There are a huge number of people doing energy modeling. In my opinion, nearly all of them are going astray in their modeling because they don’t understand how the economy really operates. The modeling that comes closest to being correct is that which underlies the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth by […]
Historical lessons in prosperity vs. poverty
Historical lessons in prosperity vs. poverty As the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan had a lot to prove. So he set his eyes on the biggest prize in the known world at the time: southern China. Kublai Khan completed his conquest of China in 1279, forging a new empire and creating the Yuan dynasty. […]
The U.S. Dollar Could Be Nearing Its “End Game”
The U.S. Dollar Could Be Nearing Its “End Game” From foreign countries trying to dethrone the dollar’s hegemony as global reserve currency, all the way to rising inflation weakening it… the U.S. dollar is in trouble. Pundits like Jim Rickards said (back in 2016): “The dollar won’t lose its reserve currency status overnight” — and he was right. But a new […]
The Globalists Are Gonna Need A Bigger Virus As Economic Fraud Is Exposed
The Globalists Are Gonna Need A Bigger Virus As Economic Fraud Is Exposed It is a general rule that corrupt economies tend to operate on faith and not on fundamentals. And to be clear, it’s not so much about naive faith that the system is stable or functional. No, it’s more about the masses having […]
Forecast What?
Forecast What? Roy Lichtenstein Woman With Flowered Hat 1963Well, Dr. D is back again. You might want to sit down for this one.Dr. D: In my last article I wrote about cows and hay and unrealistic estimates of production of the land. But surely that is all academic. What could possibly force Americans to once again eat by […]
Federal Reserve & Conspiracy Theories
Federal Reserve & Conspiracy Theories COMMENT: Hi AE….just an observation for you. Altho’ you have mentioned your disagreement with the points of view of such people as Ed Griffin (The Creature From J Island), Ron Paul (End The Fed), & Jeff Berwick (current best seller is Controlled Demo of The US), all of you are in […]
BoE Keeps Policy Unchanged, Tells Banks To Start Preparing For Negative Rates “If Necessary” But Sees Spike In Inflation
BoE Keeps Policy Unchanged, Tells Banks To Start Preparing For Negative Rates “If Necessary” But Sees Spike In Inflation The Bank of England kept its stimulus program unchanged on Thursday. The BoE maintained its Bank Rate at 0.1% and left the size of its total asset purchase programme at 895 billion pounds in a unanimous decision, […]
“The Fed’s Monetary Punchbowl Is Fueling Rampant Home Price Appreciation”: AEI
“The Fed’s Monetary Punchbowl Is Fueling Rampant Home Price Appreciation”: AEI “There is no justification” for continuing the purchases of mortgage-backed securities. The Fed is “misdiagnosing its impact on the housing market.” Pressure rises on the Fed to back off, in face of market craziness. During the press conference following the FOMC meeting last week, […]
Inflation Galore at Manufactures, amid Massive Shifts in Demand, Supply-Chain Snags, Shortages, Lack of Shipping Capacity. And They’re Passing it On
Inflation Galore at Manufactures, amid Massive Shifts in Demand, Supply-Chain Snags, Shortages, Lack of Shipping Capacity. And They’re Passing it On For now, the story is that it’s just temporary. For now, the story is that the sudden and massive shifts in the economy in 2020 have caused shortages and distortions in the goods-producing sectors […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Stock Market Is Broken, Now for All to See
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Stock Market Is Broken, Now for All to See The historic short squeeze, engineered by millions of deeply cynical small traders, exposed just how rigged the market has been. (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts).
Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style
Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style Their operation was in jeopardy, their ‘business model’ at risk. Their reaction was typical for the brazen barons of finance, writes Michael Brenner. Surer than Three Card Monte, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco, 1887. (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Jefferson R. […]
The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded by the Truth, Will Stumble and Crash
The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded by the Truth, Will Stumble and Crash It didn’t have to be this way, but this is the reality we must now face: truth is fatal to fraud, and our entire financial-political system is a fraud. The stock market has just been punctured by the thin blades of truth. It […]
