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What We Learned over Dinner from a Swiss Central Banker
What We Learned over Dinner from a Swiss Central Banker Dear Diary, Today… what we learned over dinner from a surprisingly smart central banker. But first, to the markets… The Dow shot up 121 Dow points yesterday, recovering most of Tuesday’s slide. In a series of business meetings Tuesday and Wednesday, we explained why nobody but us is rooting for […]
Letter to a Plutocrat: Your Pipeline Made Me a Criminal
Letter to a Plutocrat: Your Pipeline Made Me a Criminal Dear Sir/Madam: I’m writing to you who control our government now — that is, the big corporations of the world. Let’s not pretend it is otherwise. Thanks to a system in which money buys elections, nearly all of our politicians are in your employ. Thanks for […]
The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World: 286 Percent
The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World: 286 Percent Did you know that there is more than $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet? And since close to 3 billion of those people survive on less than 2 dollars a day, your share of that debt is […]
The Next 94 Days Could Be Bad for Your Wallet
The Next 94 Days Could Be Bad for Your Wallet The Longest, Deepest Depression in US History Yesterday’s good news was that there will be no 25-year recession. “We should be so lucky,” is the way a New Yorker might react. Because the bad news is much worse. The logic of the “long depression” is simple. […]
There Will Be No 25-Year Depression
There Will Be No 25-Year Depression Good and Bad News Today, we have bad news and good news. The good news is that there will be no 25-year recession. Nor will there be a depression that will last the rest of our lifetimes. The bad news: It will be much worse than that. On Monday, […]
Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression
Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression One that unwinds the past 50 years of globalization Richard Duncan, author of The Dollar Crisis and The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy, isn’t mincing words about the risks he sees ahead for the world economy. Essentially, he sees the past 50 years […]
I WILL NOT HAVE A DEPRESSING DEPRESSION
I WILL NOT HAVE A DEPRESSING DEPRESSION With the world careening towards great change, challenges and chaos, there is no shortage of links and lists to help us toughen up and get prepared to stay healthy, alert and nimble. But at the end of the day it is our own ‘self’, our mind we are […]
Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression
Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression The signs of the times are everywhere – all you have to do is open up your eyes and look at them. When a pregnant woman first goes into labor, the birth pangs are usually fairly moderate and are not that close together. But as the time for […]
Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression
Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression The signs of the times are everywhere – all you have to do is open up your eyes and look at them. When a pregnant woman first goes into labor, the birth pangs are usually fairly moderate and are not that close together. But as the time for […]
Try Everything by J. Bradford DeLong – Project Syndicate
Try Everything by J. Bradford DeLong – Project Syndicate. BERKELEY – When it became clear in late 2008 that the global economy was headed toward a crash at least as dangerous as the one that had initiated the Great Depression, I was alarmed, but also hopeful. We had, after all, seen this before. And we […]
