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Can We Afford the Future?
Can We Afford the Future? Broken road image via shutterstock. Reproduced at Resilience.org with permission. As a child of the 1950s I grew up immersed in a near-universal expectation of progress. Everybody expected a shiny new future; the only thing that might have prevented us from having it was nuclear war, and thankfully that hasn’t happened […]
What is Degrowth? Envisioning a Prosperous Descent
What is Degrowth? Envisioning a Prosperous Descent This is a transcript of my keynote address presented at the ‘Local Lives, Global Matters’ conference in Castlemaine, Victoria, 16-18 October 2015. Other keynote speakers included Rob Hopkins, David Holmgren, and Helena Norberg-Hodge. INTRODUCTION Thank you for that introduction, Jacinta, good morning everyone. I would like to begin […]
Here Comes the Next Global Recession
Here Comes the Next Global Recession It might seem peculiar to some people to talk about the ‘next’ global recession, given that it doesn’t feel like we ever really got out of the last one. Eight years on from the global financial crash we find that the global economy is still drowning in debt, and […]
The decoupling debate: can economic growth really continue without emission increases?
The decoupling debate: can economic growth really continue without emission increases? Most ecological economists argue that continued economic growth is incompatible with ecological safety. That is to say continued increases in Gross Domestic Product, (GDP and also Gross Value Added, GVA) cannot happen while reducing ecological impacts in general, and climate change-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) […]
IMF downgrades Canadian growth outlook to 1% for 2015
IMF downgrades Canadian growth outlook to 1% for 2015 Risks for the world include low commodities prices, China’s slowdown and rate hikes The IMF has downgraded its outlook for Canadian growth to one per cent this year because of the impact of lower oil and commodities prices. It also has revised its expectations for global […]
When The Advanced Keynesian Disease Afflicts A Nation—–Japan’s Abe Goes Full Fantasy-tard With 3 New ‘Arrows’
When The Advanced Keynesian Disease Afflicts A Nation—–Japan’s Abe Goes Full Fantasy-tard With 3 New ‘Arrows’ Having completed his militarist plans, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to have gone full fantasy-tard with his latest “plans” for the demographically-dead and debt-destroyed nation. “Creating a strong economy will continue to be my top priority,” Abe said, a goal […]
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same?
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same? Two years ago when he was 14, my son Matthew grew six inches. Last year he only grew two inches, and this year he has only grown half an inch. Should I be worried? Of course not. At a certain stage of maturity, quantifiable physical growth […]
Is cheaper driving here to stay?
Is cheaper driving here to stay? Gasoline may stay cheap until we burn through the current market glut in perhaps a year. We are now seeing declining growth and a deflationary economic contraction globally. In fact, the current $40-plus a barrel oil price is by itself good proof of that. The global collapse in the […]
Taxation & Its Role in the Destruction of Our Economy
QUESTION: Thank you for your fascinating blog. I thoroughly enjoy reading your analysis on social, political, financial and historical topics. i would like to make a couple points with questions and get your analysis or feedback on these. First point: You describe that post 2015.75 (Big Bang), you expect a peak in bonds (safe haven) that […]
Why we need to lie to ourselves about the state of the economy
Why we need to lie to ourselves about the state of the economy Since 2007, global debt has grown by US$57 trillion, or 17 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product. Photo: Louie Douvis Like the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the world awaits the return of wealth and prosperity. But the global economy […]
Krugman’s Dopey Diatribe Deifying The Public Debt
Krugman’s Dopey Diatribe Deifying The Public Debt Actually, dopey does not even begin to describe Paul Krugman’s latest spot of tommyrot. But least it appear that the good professor is being caricaturized, here are his own words. In a world drowning in government debt what we desperately need, by golly, is more of the same: That is, there’s a reasonable argument to be […]
This Week In Energy: The Growing Threat From China
This Week In Energy: The Growing Threat From China Oil prices dropped to new six-year lows this week as WTI dipped below $42 per barrel. The big piece of news this week was the currency depreciation in China. It seems we are talking more and more these days about the warning signs coming from China’s […]
How Economic Growth Fails
How Economic Growth Fails We all know generally how today’s economy works: Our economy is a networked system. I have illustrated it as being similar to a child’s building toy. Ever-larger structures can be built by adding more businesses and consumers, and by using resources of various kinds to produce an increasing quantity of goods and […]
Keynesians Wrong About Stimulus, Coming AND Going
Keynesians Wrong About Stimulus, Coming AND Going In a previous post here at Mises CA I chronicled the hole Krugman keeps digging for himself regarding the botched warnings over the so-called “sequester” in 2013. Specifically, Krugman’s latest excuse is to say that when he argued back in 2013 that the sequester was a “fiscal doomsday machine” and […]
