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Chesapeake Files For Bankruptcy, Wiping Out $7 Billion In Debt And Any Existing Equity Value

June 28, 2020

Chesapeake Files For Bankruptcy, Wiping Out $7 Billion In Debt And Any Existing Equity Value After years of melting, the Chesapeake icecube is finally history: at exactly 350pm on Sunday afternoon, the company that launched the US shale boom, finally gave up and filed for a pre-packaged bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas. In […]

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Transformative Thinking on Resilience in a Year of Crisis and Resistance

March 30, 2018

Transformative Thinking on Resilience in a Year of Crisis and Resistance These are trying times for those who care about equity, sustainability and climate change—the issues that will shape our common future. In 2017, we saw the ascension of a US presidential administration that denies the reality of climate change, emboldens hate groups, and borrows […]

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The Supersedure State

January 30, 2018

The Supersedure State I said that I wanted to focus on the shape of possible agrarian, post-capitalist states of the future in my forthcoming writing, so I thought I’d anticipate that here by reproducing my article from the current issue of The Land magazine (Issue 22, 2018, pp.28-30). The editors of that august journal in their wisdom […]

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Kyle Bass: China’s $40 Trillion Banking System Has “Largest Imbalances I’ve Ever Seen”

September 17, 2017

Kyle Bass: China’s $40 Trillion Banking System Has “Largest Imbalances I’ve Ever Seen” Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital has been having a rough year thanks to its widely publicized bet against China’s currency, which has more than reversed its 2016 decline – its largest annual drop since 1994 – as the People’s Bank of China has […]

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Climate, Energy, Economy: Pick Two

July 5, 2016

Climate, Energy, Economy: Pick Two Dorothea Lange Miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, OK 1936We used to have this saying that if someone asks you to do a job good, fast and cheap, you’d say: pick two. You can have it good and cheap, but then it won’t be fast, etc. As our New Zealand correspondent Dr. […]

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Big Natural Gas Driller Bites Dust, ‘Smart Money’ Gets Crushed

August 12, 2015

Big Natural Gas Driller Bites Dust, ‘Smart Money’ Gets Crushed Natural gas driller Samson Resources is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by August 15, when a $110 million interest payment comes due on $2.25 billion of senior unsecured junk bonds, Bloomberg reported, citing “two people with knowledge of the matter.” Samson doesn’t have the money, […]

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Low interest rates prompt savers to borrow to invest

August 4, 2015

Low interest rates prompt savers to borrow to invest Kevin Stone plans to borrow $20K this year to invest in various stocks Kevin Stone is 28 years old and already has over half a million dollars of debt, including a mortgage and a loan to purchase farmland. But he’s not concerned, because that apparent burden is actually helping fuel his […]

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“It’s Time To Hold Physical Cash”, Fidelity Manager Warns Ahead Of “Systemic Event”

June 22, 2015

“It’s Time To Hold Physical Cash”, Fidelity Manager Warns Ahead Of “Systemic Event” As Jamie Dimon recently noted while discussing the perils of illiquid fixed income markets, the statistics around “tail events” can no longer be trusted. In other words, 6, 7, or 8 standard deviation moves that in theory should only happen once every two or […]

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