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How the Corporate Media Continues to Use the Russia Scapegoat as a Distraction from Status Quo Failure
How the Corporate Media Continues to Use the Russia Scapegoat as a Distraction from Status Quo Failure Countless observers have noted the obvious fact that the corporate media’s all-encompassing obsession with anti-Russia hysteria is partly just a shameless campaign to prevent change within the Democratic Party by blaming its loss on an outside enemy as opposed to […]
This Is How the Status Quo Unravels: As the Pie Shrinks, Everybody Demands Their Piece Should Get Bigger
This Is How the Status Quo Unravels: As the Pie Shrinks, Everybody Demands Their Piece Should Get Bigger Fragmentation, discord, discontent, class war: this is the inevitable result of a shrinking pie. The politics of the past 70 years was all about horsetrading who got what share of the growing pie: the “pie” being cheap energy, […]
Which Assets Are Most Likely to Survive the Inevitable “System Re-Set”?
Which Assets Are Most Likely to Survive the Inevitable “System Re-Set”? Your skills, knowledge and social capital will emerge unscathed on the other side of the re-set wormhole. Your financial assets held in centrally controlled institutions will not. Longtime correspondent C.A. recently asked a question every American household should be asking: which assets are most […]
The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills for a Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control of the Narrative
The Washington Post: Useful-Idiot Shills for a Failed, Frantic Status Quo That Has Lost Control of the Narrative Don’t you think it fair and reasonable that anyone accusing me of being a shill for Russian propaganda ought to read my ten books in their entirety and identify the sections that support their slanderous accusation? I […]
Please Assume Crash Positions
Please Assume Crash Positions That few believe Mr. Market can possibly stumble only increases the odds of a stumble. You know how to get into crash positions, correct? Here’s your guide: Very few punters expect a real downturn here in stocks. The reasons for confidence are many: the Fed has our back, buy the dip has worked […]
The Mainstream Has Failed
The Mainstream Has Failed The good news is there is a way to avoid failure and stagnation: avoid the mainstream like the plague. The mainstream became mainstream because it worked: the mainstream advice to “go to college and you’ll get a good job” worked, the mainstream financial plan of buying a house to build equity to […]
Hamilton’s Curse (Reprised)
HAMILTON’S CURSE (REPRISED) The following article is (after very light editing) something your author wrote early in October of 2008, when the padlocks on the Lehman office building doors were still swinging. The reader will, he hopes, find that most of the presentiments expressed and the analysis submitted sadly turned out to be more accurate than otherwise. It […]
“Helicopter Money” Won’t Fix What’s Broken
“Helicopter Money” Won’t Fix What’s Broken Creating “free money” to support bloated bureaucracies and corrupt cartels only makes the underlying problems worse. The mere mention of helicopter money has intoxicated global stock markets, which have soared on the rumor of Japanese helicopter money. But as I explained in Why Helicopter Money Won’t Push Stocks Higher, central banks funding fiscal spending […]
“The Resentment Will Explode” – In Dramatic Twist, McKinsey Slams Globalization
“The Resentment Will Explode” – In Dramatic Twist, McKinsey Slams Globalization The IMF is getting nervous, and what it appears to be most concerned about, is a collapse of the status quo. Moments ago, in a speech in Washington, IMF head Christine Lagarde said that “The greatest challenge we face today is the risk of […]
Brexit and the Crisis of Capitalism
Brexit and the Crisis of Capitalism If you collapse these extractive, debt-dependent crony-capitalist cartels, you collapse the entire status quo. Thousands of commentaries have been issued about Brexit in the past week.I’ve written four myself. Most discuss Brexit as the result of immigration issues, class war, political theater, a reaction against the European Union’s bureaucratic […]
The Boiling Pot
The Boiling Pot On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper prices […]
The Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019
The Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019 Leaders face a no-win dilemma: any change of course will crash the system, but maintaining the current course will also crash the system. The end-state of unsustainable systems is collapse. Though collapse may appear to be sudden and chaotic, we can discern key structures that guide the processes of collapse. Though […]
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization Gordon T. Long and I discuss the failure of the status quo’s “New Normal” in a new 34-minute YouTube program. It is not possible to coherently discuss the “New Normal” economy without discussing financialization–the substitution of credit expansion and speculation for productive investments in the real economy–and its sibling: globalization. Globalization is […]
Eight “New Normal” Charts That Are Insanely Abnormal–and Dangerous
Eight “New Normal” Charts That Are Insanely Abnormal–and Dangerous Is there anyone on the planet who’s actually stupid enough to believe these New Normal charts are healthy and sustainable? Anyone questioning the sustainability and rightness of The New Normal is immediately attacked by the mainstream-media defenders of the crumbling status quo. Not only is everything that […]
Why Real Reform Is Now Impossible
Why Real Reform Is Now Impossible The endless bleating of well-paid pundits in the corporate media about “reform” is just more circus. It’s difficult for well-meaning pundits to abandon the fantasy that meaningful reform is possible. Indeed, a critical function of the punditry and corporate media is to foster the fantasy that the status quo could […]
