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A Modest Plan
A Modest Plan Rembrandt van Rijn The Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1633 On March 18, 1990, the painting was stolen by thieves disguised as police officers. They broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, MA, and stole this painting, along with 12 other works. The paintings have never been recovered, and […]
Why The Next Recession Will Morph into a Decades Long Depressionary Event…Or Worse
Why The Next Recession Will Morph into a Decades Long Depressionary Event…Or Worse Economists spend inordinate time gauging the business cycle that they believe drives the US economy. However, the real engine running in the background (and nearly entirely forgotten) is the population cycle. The positive population cycle is such a long running macro trend thousands of years […]
Legendary technical investor Robert Prechter is awaiting a depression-like shock in the U.S.
Legendary technical investor Robert Prechter is awaiting a depression-like shock in the U.S. He tells Avi Gilburt in a Q&A that today’s mood of optimism will give way to a funk that will rival that of the 1930s Robert Prechter with the 61,000 sheets of paper generated in the editing process for his new book, […]
Eric Peters: “If China And The World Bank Are Right, We’re Headed For A Depression”
Eric Peters: “If China And The World Bank Are Right, We’re Headed For A Depression” “Some people blindly invested offshore and were in a rush to do so,” explained China’s central bank chief, justifying his recent capital controls. “Some of this outbound investment was not in line with our own policies and had no real […]
The Reason The Elite Hate Trump So Much Is Because He Is Opposed To The One World Agenda Of The Globalists
The Reason The Elite Hate Trump So Much Is Because He Is Opposed To The One World Agenda Of The Globalists Have you ever wondered why the elite hate Donald Trump so much? There have certainly been many politicians throughout the years that have been disliked, but with Trump there is a hatred that is […]
Beyond the Zombie Economy
Beyond the Zombie Economy The present day metaphor is the ‘Zombie’ economy depicting the economic system as an unthinking monster in relentless pursuit of a single objective. Part of the Anti-Austerity and Media Activism series with Goldsmiths. Flickr/S J Pinkney. Some rights reserved. Economic metaphors are important to illustrate the distinct features of specific economic systems that exist […]
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s)
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s) We have seen several explanations for the financial crisis and its lingering effects depressing our global economy in its aftermath. Some are plain stupid, such as greed for some reason suddenly overwhelmed people working within finance, as if […]
How Will You Cope With A Lower Standard of Living?
How Will You Cope With A Lower Standard of Living? The forces are mounting that will eventually overwhelm most Americans and send their standard of living to unknown depths. Americans that have only known the post WWII prosperity are ill equipped and educated to deal with depression level living. Easy credit and instant gratification have created […]
Japan: A Future of Stagnation
Japan: A Future of Stagnation Take a declining population with declining rates of productivity growth and load it up with debt, and you get a triple-whammy recipe for permanent stagnation. One of our longtime friends in Japan just sold the family business. The writing was on the wall, and had been for the past decade: fewer […]
Without Recovery There Is Every Need To Examine The Worst Case
Without Recovery There Is Every Need To Examine The Worst Case There is a great deal that is wrong with mainstream economic commentary, starting with its unwavering devotion to orthodox economics and unshakable faith in their “stimulus.” No matter how little is actually stimulated there is never any doubt that the media will simultaneously forget […]
“We Haven’t Seen This Is In Our Lifetimes” – CEO Says “Alberta Is In A Depression”
“We Haven’t Seen This Is In Our Lifetimes” – CEO Says “Alberta Is In A Depression” Regular readers know that we’ve covered Alberta’s decline at length (refresher here), so there is no need to give much of a backstory other than to say that the situation seems to get worse for the Canadian province as each […]
100 Years of Mismanagement
100 Years of Mismanagement Lost From the Get-Go There must be some dark corner of Hell warming up for modern, mainstream economists. They helped bring on the worst bubble ever… with their theories of efficient markets and modern portfolio management. They failed to see it for what it was. Then, when trouble came, they made […]
The Keynesian House Of Denial
The Keynesian House Of Denial We use the term “Keynesian” loosely to stand for economic interventionists of all schools. The followers of JM Keynes and Milton Friedman alike fit that category. So do some of the more rabid supply siders who claim the power to stimulate ultra-high economic growth with the tools of tax policy alone. The […]
Young people are growing ever more depressed. Is modern life to blame?
Young people are growing ever more depressed. Is modern life to blame? Our mental health has suffered over the past 80 years. The causes are complex, but it’s exhausting to live in a society where asking for help equals failure ‘If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part […]
