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The ‘End of Dreams’, and the Saving of Appearances
The ‘End of Dreams’, and the Saving of Appearances Zao Wu-Ki The red sun 1950Once again, to my delight, we’re back with former British diplomat and MI6 ‘ranking figure’ Alastair Crooke and his Conflicts Forum organization. We posted a few of his articles this year and last. This time, Alastair writes a reaction to one […]
How Broke is the House of Saud?
How Broke is the House of Saud? Salvador Dalí The oecumenial council 1960Trying to figure out what on earth is happening in the Middle East appears to have gotten a lot harder. Perhaps (because) it’s become more dangerous too. There are so many players, and connections between players, involved now that even making one of […]
Preparing For EU Collapse
Preparing For EU Collapse Claude Monet The house at Yerres 1876 If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes. First of all, Brussels can no longer insist that this is an […]
The Biggest Ponzi in Human History
The Biggest Ponzi in Human History Jean-Léon Gérôme Slave market 1866Here’s the story in a nutshell: Ultra low interest rates mark a shift away from people’s wealth residing in their savings and pension plans, and into to so-called wealth residing in their homes, which are bought with ever growing levels of debt. When interest rates […]
Nobody Called Anyone An Ignorant Slut
Nobody Called Anyone An Ignorant Slut Salvador Dalí The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 1959Let’s get one thing straight: Donald Trump is as American as apple pie (even if both are imports). He’s brash and loud and abrasive and entirely focused on money, he’s given to exaggeration, he stretches the truth, he constantly seeks […]
Volatility on Steroids
Volatility on Steroids Salvador Dalí White calm 1936It’s been a while since we last heard from longtime friend of the Automatic Earth Dr. Nelson Lebo III, New Englander living in Wanganui, New Zealand. Nelson has written a fine collection of articles on this site through the years. Of course I thought, when I first saw […]
Is Capitalism Dead or Merely Dying?
Is Capitalism Dead or Merely Dying? Alfred Wertheimer Elvis 1956 New Zealand’s new prime minister Jacinda Ardern calls capitalism a blatant failure. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says capitalism is ‘merely’ coming to an end because it is making itself obsolete. Mathematics professor Bruce Boghosian claims that without redistribution of wealth, our market economy […]
Ray Dalio’s Shorting The Entire EU
Ray Dalio’s Shorting The Entire EU Salvator Rosa Heroic battle 1652A point BOE Governor Mark Carney made recently may be the biggest cog in the European Union’s wheel (or is it second biggest? Read on). That is, derivatives clearing. It’s one of the few areas where Brussels stands to lose much more than London, but […]
Globalization is Poverty
Globalization is Poverty Marc Riboud Zazou, painter of the EIffel Tower 1953Central bankers have never done more damage to the world economy than in the past 10 years. One may argue this is because they never had the power to do that. If their predecessors had had that power, who knows? Still, the global economy […]
The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom
The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom Rembrandt Old man with a beard 1630“The Cost of Missing the Market Boom is Skyrocketing”, says a Bloomberg headline today. That must be the scariest headline I’ve seen in quite a while. For starters, it’s misleading, because people who ‘missed’ the boom haven’t lost anything other than […]
Only China Can Restore Stability in The Global Economy
Only China Can Restore Stability in The Global Economy Fan Ho East meets west 1963 For those of you who don’t know Andy Xie, he’s an MIT-educated former IMF economist and was once Morgan Stanley’s chief Asia-Pacific economist. Xie is known for a bearish view of China, and not Beijing’s favorite person. He’s now an […]
The S&P Is A Bloated Corpse
The S&P Is A Bloated Corpse Fan Ho In Paris 1953 Update: I never did this before, but now I think I must: change the title of an article. “Minsky and Volatility” isn’t nearly as good as “The S&P Is A Bloated Corpse”. Simple, really. The URL will be the same as before According to […]
DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion
DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion Fred Lyon Barbary Coast 1950A friend sent me a post from the DiEM25 website last week, entitled Critique of DiEM25 policy on immigrants and refugees. DiEM25 is a pan-European political movement of which former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is a co-founder. I started writing some lines as a […]
Catalonia and other Disasters
Catalonia and other Disasters I’ve seen a lot of videos and photos of the Catalonia attempt to hold a referendum today (Tyler has a “nice” series of them), and what struck me most of all, apart from the senseless violence police forces were seen to engage in, is the lack of violence on the side […]
The Koyaanisqatsi Economy
The Koyaanisqatsi Economy KoyaanisqatsiThe film Koyaanisqatsi was released in 1982. The title means ‘life out of balance’ in the language of the Hopi, a Native American tribe who live(d) mainly in what is now north-east Arizona. It is directed by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. There are no […]
