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The Unbearable Slowness of Fourth Turnings
THE UNBEARABLE SLOWNESS OF FOURTH TURNINGS “The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the […]
The Next Crisis Will Reveal How Little Liquidity There Is
The Next Crisis Will Reveal How Little Liquidity There Is This is something I’ve been pondering for some time. I think the next crisis will reveal how little liquidity there is in the credit markets, especially in the high-yield, lower-rated space. Dodd–Frank has greatly limited the ability of banks to provide market-making opportunities and credit […]
Lebanon Plunges Into Crisis After Premier Resigns, Fearing Assassination Plot
Lebanon Plunges Into Crisis After Premier Resigns, Fearing Assassination Plot The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad al-Hariri, unexpectedly resigned on Saturday, saying in a fiery televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia that he feared for his life while also fiercely criticizing Iran. According to regional analysts, the move has “plunged Lebanon into crisis” amid heightened regional tensions. […]
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change For the benefit of the elites; not the rest of us We can add a third certainty to the two standard ones (death and taxes): The rules will suddenly change when a financial crisis strikes. Why is this a certainty? The answer is complex, as it […]
Jackson Hole and the Appalachians
Jackson Hole and the Appalachians Henri Cartier-Bresson Trafalgar Square on the Day of the Coronation of George VI 1937 The Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers and other economics big shots is on again. They all still like themselves very much. Apart from a pesky inflation problem that none of them can get a grip […]
Central Banks ARE The Crisis
Central Banks ARE The Crisis Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894If there’s one myth -and there are many- that we should invalidate in the cross-over world of politics and economics, it‘s that central banks have saved us from a financial crisis. It’s a carefully construed myth, but it’s […]
The Automatic Earth Primer Guide 2017
The Automatic Earth Primer Guide 2017 Pablo Picasso Bull plates I-XI 1945Nicole Foss has completed a huge tour de force with her update of the Automatic Earth Primer Guide. The first update since 2013 is now more like a Primer Library, with close to 160 articles and videos published over the past -almost- 10 […]
Comey and the End of Conversation
Comey and the End of Conversation Ray K. Metzker Philadelphia 1962You might have thought, and hoped, that recent events, such as the election of Trump as president of the US, or Brexit, or the rise of Marine Le Pen and other non-establishment forces in Europe, would, as a matter of -natural- course, have led to […]
Pension Crisis In U.S. and Globally Is Unavoidable
Pension Crisis In U.S. and Globally Is Unavoidable Pension Crisis In U.S. and Globally Is Unavoidable There is a really big crisis coming. Think about it this way. After 8 years and a 230% stock market advance the pension funds of Dallas, Chicago, and Houston are in severe trouble. But it isn’t just these municipalities […]
Obstacles to Trump’s ‘Growth’ Plans
Obstacles to Trump’s ‘Growth’ Plans Theodor Horydczak “Dome of US Capitol through trees at night” 1943For the second time in a few weeks (see ‘End of Growth’ Sparks Wide Discontent), former British diplomat Alastair Crooke quotes me extensively, and I gladly return the favor. Crooke here attempts to list -some of- the difficulties Donald Trump will face in executing […]
Corruption and economic instability in the news
Corruption and economic instability in the news [ I can’t keep up with the flood of news about on fraud and economic instability, so below are a few of the stories I don’t have time to write up. But there are hundreds of stories every month, too many to list or keep up with. See […]
Global Recession? The Canadian Economy Shrinks At The Fastest Pace Since The Last Financial Crisis
Global Recession? The Canadian Economy Shrinks At The Fastest Pace Since The Last Financial Crisis Things have not been this bad for the Canadian economy since the last global recession. During the second quarter of 2016, Canada’s GDP contracted at a 1.6 percent annualized rate. That was the worst number in seven years, and it […]
Degrowth by designed disaster?
Degrowth by designed disaster? How the conflation with neoliberalism and austerity unfairly reduces the idea of degrowth to absurdity – and where the degrowth movement can turn for answers to the crisis. The degrowth movement has been developed in response to neoliberal reality, neoliberalism’s comically reductive view of human nature, its ecological blindness and the […]
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander Image from ‘A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity’ 2016On July 27 2015, I posted a 2-hour interview with Nicole Foss that was recorded when we were in Melbourne in April that year. The interview -though not the full two hours of course- was always meant to be part […]
Grasshopper Nation: Planning For Those Who Aren’t Prepared
wikimedia Grasshopper Nation: Planning For Those Who Aren’t Prepared Whom will you help? And how much will you be able to? Take a moment to reflect on all the people you care about who aren’t reading this article. Or sites like this, which wrestle with the implications of limits to growth and the concerning unsustainability […]
