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Not Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing
Not Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing Jackson Pollock Shooting Star 1947 It’s amusing to see how views start to converge, at the same time that it’s tiresome to see how long that takes. It’s a good thing that more and more people ‘discover’ how and why austerity, especially in Europe, is such a losing and […]
From New World Order to Hazy Global Disorder
From New World Order to Hazy Global Disorder The Donald Trump administration and the Brexit severance of ties between the United Kingdom and the European Union have, in a matter of a little over a half year, changed the world from a post-Cold War «new world order» based on American supremacy to a global «disorder» […]
Economic Crises and the Crisis of Economics
Economic Crises and the Crisis of Economics LONDON – Is the economics profession “in crisis”? Many policymakers, such as Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, believe that it is. Indeed, a decade ago, economists failed to see a massive storm on the horizon, until it culminated in the most destructive global financial crisis in […]
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart Some people would argue that 2016 was the year that the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the “coming apart” process started in 2016, in my opinion we are going to see […]
Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order
Trump, Brexit and the Collapse of the Liberal Order Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 One of the most confounding aspects of Donald Trump’s election as 45th President of the United States is that in the space of a year – indeed less than a year – a man with zero political experience has destroyed two […]
Ungovernability
Ungovernability Inge Morath Street Corner at World’s End London 1954 Over the summer I introduced a two-fold assertion: 1) global economic growth is over (and has been for years and won’t come back for many more years) and 2) the end of growth marks the end of all centralization, including globalization. You can read all about these themes […]
“The System Simply Isn’t Working” – Hugh Hendry Warns Of 1930s-Style “Dramatic Fulcrum Point” In Europe
“The System Simply Isn’t Working” – Hugh Hendry Warns Of 1930s-Style “Dramatic Fulcrum Point” In Europe Having warned in Q1 of the possibility of a China-devaluation-driven collapse in to a “Mad Max” world, Eclectica’s Hugh Hendry lays out the next steps and catalysts for ‘change’… Via ValueWalk.com, We believe we are approaching a dramatic fulcrum point […]
Global Elites Are Getting Ready To Blame You For The Coming Financial Crash
Global Elites Are Getting Ready To Blame You For The Coming Financial Crash Those people that have any doubts about where the narrative is headed for global economic stability simply have not been paying attention lately. As I pointed out in my pre-Brexit referendum article, Brexit: Global Trigger Event, Fake Out Or Something Else?, the story being […]
Alastair Crooke: ‘End of Growth’ Sparks Wide Discontent
Alastair Crooke: ‘End of Growth’ Sparks Wide Discontent Notre Dame Gargoyle, Paris France, 19th century Former British diplomat and MI6 ‘ranking figure’ Alastair Crooke quotes my September 26 article “Why There is Trump” so extensively in this article for Consortium News that I thought I might as well post the whole thing here at the Automatic Earth too. […]
The IMF and All The Other Losers
The IMF and All The Other Losers Andre Kertesz Bumper cars at amusement park in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris 1930I read a lot, been doing it for years, about finance and affiliated topics (a wide horizon of them), which means I’ve inevitably seen a wholesale lot of nonsense fly by. But for some reason, and I think I […]
George Friedman: Italy Is the Mother of All Systemic Threats
George Friedman: Italy Is the Mother of All Systemic Threats Italy has been in a crisis for at least eight months, though mainstream media did not recognize it until July. This crisis has nothing to do with Brexit, although opponents of Brexit will claim it does. Even if Britain had voted to stay in the EU, […]
A Political Hurricane is About to Sweep Across Europe
A Political Hurricane is About to Sweep Across Europe If you’ve been paying attention, you could see this coming a mile away. Although I’ve forecast huge political shifts in the West for years now, I made my strongest prediction on European changes late last year following the Paris terror attacks. In the post, A Message to Europe […]
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh My new book will be published next Tuesday. Preorders for the e-Book version will be available in this space beginning later this week. As I previously indicated, the book is an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless interventions abroad and […]
Gazprom’s New Strategy of Control: Recapturing the EU Gas Market
Gazprom’s New Strategy of Control: Recapturing the EU Gas Market Britain’s exit from the European Union is a huge blow to European project with potentially devastating implications for its’ latest flagship policy – Energy Union. The United Kingdom has been one of the strongest proponents of EU energy market integration, liberalization, and diversification. By […]
