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The Growing Pool of Real Savings Permits the Illusion That Central Bank Can Cause Economic Growth
THE GROWING POOL OF REAL SAVINGS PERMITS THE ILLUSION THAT CENTRAL BANK CAN CAUSE ECONOMIC GROWTH Many commentators are of the view that the US central bank should pursue policies that will prevent the possible decline of the economy into a liquidity trap hole. What is this all about? In the popular framework of thinking […]
Art Berman: Think Oil Is Getting Expensive? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
Art Berman: Think Oil Is Getting Expensive? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. A global supply crunch approaches… After issuing clear warnings on this program that sub-$50 oil prices were going to be short-lived, oil expert and geological consultant Art Berman returns to the podcast this week to explain why today’s $70 oil prices will go […]
Savings as the Engine of Economic Growth
SAVINGS AS THE ENGINE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH Most economists concur with the view that what keeps the economy going is consumption expenditure. Furthermore, it is generally held that spending rather than individual saving is the essential condition for production and prosperity. Savings is seen to be detrimental to economic activity as it weakens the potential […]
GLOBAL FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN CONTINUES: Economic Growth Chokes On Massive Debt Increases
GLOBAL FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN CONTINUES: Economic Growth Chokes On Massive Debt Increases The U.S. and global economies are choking on a massive amount of debt. While Wall Street and the Mainstream financial media continue to rationalize the skyrocketing debt as merely the cost of doing business, the disintegrating fundamentals point to an economic catastrophe in the […]
The world needs less from us (and more) (by Tim Crownshaw)
The world needs less from us (and more) (by Tim Crownshaw) Ghosts Of The Concrete World by Cameron Gray (parablevisions.com) Around two decades ago, scientists began seriously discussing the prospects and suitability of geoengineering as a response to climate change. The options which have the potential to make a difference over a short timeframe revolve […]
The Economy Is Cooked
© Albund | Dreamstime.com The Economy Is Cooked The growth cycle has peaked Hours ago, European Central Bank chief Mario Dragho conceded: “The growth cycle may have peaked” Of course, those paying attention to the data already knew this. Our politicians and central planers have been peddling to us the fantasy that the global economy […]
Trade Wars Just Beginning…The War Is a Fight Over an Indefinitely Shrinking Pie
Trade Wars Just Beginning…The War Is a Fight Over an Indefinitely Shrinking Pie From a growth perspective, it doesn’t matter if the world is 7.5 million or 7.5 billion persons…it only matters how many more there are from one year to the next. Economic growth (or the ability to consume more…not produce more) is about the […]
Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day?
Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day? The US will be paying for its current fiscal excesses with the promise of future payments. But inefficient economic stimulus now will not give future generations the productive resources needed to make good on it. CAMBRIDGE – More than a decade […]
Our Economy is a Degenerative System
Our Economy is a Degenerative System Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies “What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet Our ecological footprint exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate. A number of useful indicators and frameworks have been developed to measure the […]
Can Money Pumping Stimulate Economic Growth?
CAN MONEY PUMPING STIMULATE ECONOMIC GROWTH? According to most economic experts when an economy falls into a recession the central bank can pull it out of the slump by means of money pumping. This way of thinking implies that money pumping can somehow grow the economy. Indeed US historical evidence supposedly does show that easy […]
Synchronized Global Growth is Ending: Shocks Come Next
Synchronized Global Growth is Ending: Shocks Come Next Economic pleasant surprises are in the past, as is the buildup of the balance sheet. The future is deleveraging. Alarm bells are ringing. No one cares. By now, everyone knows stock only go up. For those in tune with other ideas, Financial Times writer Stephen King suggests […]
The $233 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Global Debt
The $233 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Global Debt Global debt has reached record heights without any signs of relief. While central bankers try to explain away the phenomenon of these out-of-control numbers, it’s not much of a mystery. Immediate consumption with the promise of repayment sometime in the future has consequences. Global debt is […]
The Global Economy’s Wile E. Coyote Moment
The Global Economy’s Wile E. Coyote Moment Economies and markets may already be plunging off a cliff. Always behind. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Our prediction last year of a global growth downturn was based on our 20-Country Long Leading Index, which, in 2016, foresaw the synchronized global growth upturn that the consensus only started to […]
We need to end growth dependency, but how?
We need to end growth dependency, but how? Introduction: escaping growth-dependency It has long been understood that the standard economic prescription of economic “growth”, to fix multiple economic, social and environmental ills, is highly implausible3. This stems from the elementary observation that you cannot expand the material throughput of the economy (the materials and energy it […]
