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2022: Energy limits are likely to push the world economy into recessionIn my view, there are three ways a growing economy can be sustained:
2022: Energy limits are likely to push the world economy into recessionIn my view, there are three ways a growing economy can be sustained: With a growing supply of cheap-to-produce energy products, matched to the economy’s energy needs. With growing debt and other indirect promises of future goods and services, such as rising asset prices. […]
Sri Lanka economists tell government to default on bond, buy food
Sri Lanka economists tell government to default on bond, buy food $500m should be redirected to pay for fuel, medicine and other essentials, experts say Sri Lankan rupee banknotes sit in a bucket at a fruit stall in Colombo. The country is running out of imported food, fuel, medicine and a key ingredient of milk […]
Coming Market Madness Could Take 70 Years to Recover
COMING MARKET MADNESS COULD TAKE 70 YEARS TO RECOVER Cervantes famous classic novel Don Quixote can in simple terms be described as a fight for liberty and freedom against oppression and against the state. This book is from 1605 and considered to be one of the best books ever written. In the midst of market […]
Fourth Turning 2022 — Bad Moon Rising
FOURTH TURNING 2022 – BAD MOON RISING “Try to unlearn the obsessive fear of death (and the anxious quest for death avoidance) that pervades linear thinking in nearly every modern society. The ancients knew that, without periodic decay and death, nature cannot complete its full round of biological and social change. Without plant death, weeds […]
What Will Surprise Us in 2022
What Will Surprise Us in 2022 What seemed so permanent for 13 long years will be revealed as shifting sand and what seemed so real for 13 long years will be revealed as illusion. Magical thinking isn’t optimism, it is folly. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but let’s look at what we already […]
The Coming Retirement Crisis Will Affect Everyone
The Coming Retirement Crisis Will Affect Everyone We are on the cusp of a retirement crisis that will affect everyone. Far too many promises have been made and the demographics we face do not bode well for a bright future. The answer that some people tout is we should have more children or open the […]
Is the Crack-up Boom Here?
Is the Crack-up Boom Here? Bloomberg News recently solicited advice from Argentinians who lived through that country’s high inflation on how Americans should cope with rising inflation. The Argentinians suggested Americans spend their paychecks as fast as possible to avoid future price increases. They also suggested taking out loans that can be paid back later […]
War Drums Are Beating
War Drums Are Beating A RISK NOT DISCUSSED It was around 2017 when I began seeing the ridiculous climate hysteria being pushed not just by dreadlocked physics deniers chaining themselves to trees but at an institutional level. This, I thought to myself, was something very, very dangerous and which — if taken to any greater […]
The Sovereign Debt Crisis Arrives
The Sovereign Debt Crisis Arrives While the world is turning, the economic crisis emanating from the SovereignDebt Crisis in Europe is propelling a very serious outlook as we head into 2022. I have been warning for the past 10 years that the situation would become critical. I have attended meetings with many central banks over […]
Chaos and the Triumph of Survival
CHAOS AND THE TRIUMPH OF SURVIVAL One of the most horrifying works of art is Bruegel’s “The Triumph of Death” painted in 1562. The painting depicts the end of life on earth. I sincerely hope that this is not what the world will literally look like in the next decade or two but metaphorically this is not […]
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt The emergence and acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory has turned our economic system upside down. Skeptics of its substance and sustainability have been brushed aside temporarily but expect the MMT experiment to collapse and end in ruin. To us that believe in old school economics, […]
Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion
Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion For years, the climate change lobby was laser-focused on just one aspect of the “climate change” crusade: the end – which supposedly is some world where the temperatures no longer rise due to fossil fuel emissions (because we now live in […]
Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart
Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial […]
Will China Pop the Global Everything Bubble? Yes
Will China Pop the Global Everything Bubble? Yes The line of dominoes that is already toppling extends around the entire global economy and financial system. Plan accordingly. That China faces structural problems is well-recognized. The list of articles in the August issue of Foreign Affairs dedicated to China reflects this: Xi’s Gamble: the Race to Consolidate Power and […]
