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The EU Uses Every Crisis To Grab More Power
The EU Uses Every Crisis To Grab More Power Jean Claude Juncker held a speech yesterday that had, oh irony, been labeled a State of the Union. A perfect way of showing how pompous Juncker and his surroundings have become. A perfect way, too, to point out how much the European Union differs from the […]
Eurodystopia: A Future Divided
Eurodystopia: A Future Divided Image: dreamslayerartworks.comThis is a rerun of an article I wrote on August 10, 2012. It seems to have regained quite a bit of relevance in recent days. I was thinking earlier today, how can I write about finance when Europe continues to offend people’s, and humanity’s, most basic dignity the way […]
Nicole Foss Talks Energy Industry Issues and Oil Price Collapse
Nicole Foss Talks Energy Industry Issues and Oil Price Collapse Part I- Energy Industry Issues The Doomstead Diner site blurb: Coal Industry Collapse-Carbon Sequestration One of the biggest effects we see lately is a collapse in commodity prices, through all sectors. Most intriguing to me is the collapse in coal prices, since coal is used […]
China Is Pushing On A String Ensemble
China Is Pushing On A String Ensemble Look, it’s very clear where I stand on China; I’ve written a lot about it. And not just recently. Nicole Foss, who fully shares my views on the topic, reminded me the other day of a piece I wrote in July 2012, named Meet China’s New Leader : Pon […]
Is This Black Monday Crash The BIG ONE? It Doesn’t Matter
Is This Black Monday Crash The BIG ONE? It Doesn’t Matter After losing 11% last week, Shanghai this morning was down almost -9% at one point, after lunch went back up to -6.5%, and ended its day at -8.49%. A Black Monday for sure, but is this the BIG ONE? It really doesn’t matter one […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 5
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 5 Solution Space To use the word ‘solution’ is perhaps misleading, since it could be said to imply that circumstances exist which could allow us to continue business as usual, and this is not, in fact, the case. A crunch period cannot be avoided. We face […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 4
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 4 Blind Alleys and Techno-Fantasies The majority of proposals made by those who acknowledge limits fail on at least one of the previous criteria, and often several, if not all of them. Solution space is smaller than we typically think. The most common approach is to […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 3
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 3 Energy – Demand Collapse Followed by Supply Collapse As we have noted many times, energy is the master resource, and has been the primary driver of an expansion dating back to the beginning of the industrial revolution. In fossil fuels humanity discovered the ‘holy grail’ […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 2
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 2 The Psychological Driver of Deflation and the Collapse of the Trust Horizon The collective mood shifts rapidly from optimism and greed to pessimism and fear as the bubble bursts, and as it does so, the financial system moves from expansion to contraction. Financial contraction involves the breaking […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1 Intro A great deal of intelligence is invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow, 1976 More and more people (although not nearly enough) are coming to recognise that humanity cannot continue on its current trajectory, as the limits we face […]
Deleveraging as a Biblical Plague
Deleveraging as a Biblical Plague Eventful days in the middle of summer. Just as the Greek Pandora’s box appears to be closing for the holidays (but we know what happens once it’s open), and Europe’s ultra-slim remnants of democracy erode into the sunset, China moves in with a one-off but then super-cubed renminbi devaluation. And […]
TSHTF Podcast with Nicole Foss, Raúl Ilargi Meijer & RE
TSHTF Podcast with Nicole Foss, Raúl Ilargi Meijer & RE Nicole and I did an interview with Reverse Engineer at the Doomstead Diner a few nights ago. I haven’t listened to it yet, but he seems to think it was, let’s say, entertaining yet insightful. Cheerful in the face of collapse. Here’s what Reverse Engineer wrote about […]
Deflation, Debt and Gravity
Deflation, Debt and Gravity Far too many people have already used lines like “We Are All Greeks Now” for the words to hold on to much if any meaning by now. But it’s still a very accurate description of what awaits us all. Just not for the same reasons most who used it, did. No, […]
China And The New World Disorder
China And The New World Disorder Nicole Foss: Our consistent theme here at the Automatic Earth since its inception has been that we are facing a very powerful deflationary depression, following on from the bursting of an epic financial bubble. What we have witnessed in our three decades of expansion and inflation is nothing short of a […]
Power and Compassion
Power and Compassion Time to tackle a topic that’s very hard to get right, and that will get me quite a few pairs of rolling eyes. I want to argue that societies need a social fabric, a social contract, and that without those they must and will fail, descend into chaos. Five months ago, I […]
