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Debt: The Key Factor Connecting Energy and the Economy
Debt: The Key Factor Connecting Energy and the Economy There are many who believe that the use of energy is critical to the growth of the economy. In fact, I am among these people. The thing that is not as apparent is that growth in energy consumption is dependent on the growth of debt. Both energy and […]
Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster
Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster The earth is a finite place. If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is […]
The Lesson of Empires: Once Privilege Limits Social Mobility, Collapse Is Inevitable
The Lesson of Empires: Once Privilege Limits Social Mobility, Collapse Is Inevitable The next few years will strip away the illusions of “growth” and reveal which dominates our society and economy: privilege or social mobility. Among the many lessons of empires is one shared by virtually every empire:once the privileged few limit the rise of […]
Can We Grow Out Of Our Problems If We’re Not Actually Growing?
Can We Grow Out Of Our Problems If We’re Not Actually Growing? The rationale for today’s easy money policies is pretty straightforward: Falling interest rates and rising government deficits will counteract the drag of excessive debts taken on in previous stimulus programs and asset bubbles, enabling the developed world to create wealth faster than it […]
Lost Faith In Central Banks And The Economic End Game
Lost Faith In Central Banks And The Economic End Game We live in strange economic times, stranger perhaps than at any other point in history. Since 2007-2008, the globally intertwined and dependent fiscal system has suffered considerable declines in every conceivable area. Manufacturing around the world is in a slump, from Japan to China to […]
Triffin’s Paradox Revisited: Crunch-Time for the U.S. Dollar and the Global Economy
Triffin’s Paradox Revisited: Crunch-Time for the U.S. Dollar and the Global Economy The reality is that we’re one panic away from foreign-exchange markets ripping free of central bank manipulation. While all eyes on fixated on global stock markets as the measure of “prosperity” and “growth” (or is it hubris?), the larger force at work beneath […]
Keynes in 1939: The Coming War Will Solve our Unemployment Problem
Keynes in 1939: The Coming War Will Solve our Unemployment Problem On the eve of World War II, Keynes delivered the following chilling address on the BBC, talking about the “great experiment” of curing unemployment through war expenditure: J. M. Keynes, When the Day of Peace Comes Two years later to the day, in a lecture delivered shortly […]
The Other Problem with Debt No One is Talking About
The Other Problem with Debt No One is Talking About Faux Growth Recovery Nearly 7 years have elapsed since the official end of the Great Recession. By now it’s painfully obvious the rising tide of economic recovery has failed to lift all boats. In fact, many boats bottomed out on the rocks in early 2009 […]
Bad — But Better Than What’s Coming
Bad — But Better Than What’s Coming Talk about diminished expectations. This morning’s estimate of 1.4% Q4 GDP growth is being hailed as a pleasant surprise. Which is odd, considering that for most of the past century a number this low would have been seen as weak enough to require emergency action. And that’s just […]
Growth Is the Answer to Everything
Growth Is the Answer to Everything The Solution to Every Problem Little Changes Add Up Restoring Growth From Carrot to Stick Newport Beach, New York, and an SIC Conference Update “Growth is never by mere chance. It is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney In this business we spend a lot […]
China: A 5-Year Plan And 50 Million Jobs Lost
China: A 5-Year Plan And 50 Million Jobs Lost Arnold Genthe San Francisco , Chinatown. The street of the gamblers at night 1900China never had an actual economic model or growth model. It simply printed an obscene amount of money, especially after 2008, and used it to build factories, 30-story see-through apartment blocks and highways into nowhere […]
GDP Declines When Govt. Grows — This is Basic Common Sense
GDP Declines When Govt. Grows — This is Basic Common Sense A reader has contributed these charts that demonstrate why the socialist agenda is destroying the world. As the reader points out: “It seems that the optimal govt spending (share) is max 35% (US, AUS), and not >50% like in Europe. Lower govt expenditure has doubled GDP […]
Politics in a full world
Politics in a full world When Scientific American published Herman Daly’s “Economics in a Full World” in September 2005, few people knew what lay ahead: oil climbing to $147 a barrel, the relentless rise in global temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions, the food riots of 2008 sparked by rising food prices, the economic crash that followed, and the […]
Moral economy: a different way of thinking about the future
Moral economy: a different way of thinking about the future The current economic system has ‘wealth extraction’ masquerading as ‘wealth creation’ to the long-term detriment of everybody, even the super rich. New thinking is needed. Coal shovels at work in Randolph County, Illinois c. 1970. Katy McClelland/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nc-nd)You know something is grotesquely wrong […]
Why This Slump Has Legs
Why This Slump Has Legs We’ve only really been in two weeks of trading in the new year, things are looking pretty bad to say the least, so predictably the press are asking -and often answering- questions about when the slump will be over. Rebound, recovery, the usual terminology. When will we get back to […]
