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The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025
The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. About Spreading Lies Severe Drought Threatens 25% of Crops in Russia’s Agricultural Heartland – The Moscow Times Green transition: sustainable for whom? | Meer Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial […]
The Bulletin: April 10-16, 2025
The Bulletin: April 10-16, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle German Journalist David Bendels Sentenced for Satirical Post Targeting Interior Minister Nancy Faeser The Economics Of A Dying Empire The Sharp Turn: Global Collapse Picks Up Speed Uruguay – by Matt […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCVIII–‘Inevitable’ Growth: Helping To Keep the Profiteer Gravy Train Pumping
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCVIII February 7, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. ‘Inevitable’ Growth: Helping To Keep the Profiteer Gravy Train Pumping The following are two brief comments (followed by a couple of shorter responses to others) I put out on one of my town’s FB pages regarding the ongoing conversation/debate […]
China Housing Market Is On Life Support
China Housing Market Is On Life Support We must understand the housing market in China to fully comprehend how wealth is stored by many people in China. To those looking in from the outside, the housing market in China appears a house of cards ready to collapse at any minute. It is also a market […]
How Rethinking Affordable Homes Connects with the Climate Fight
How Rethinking Affordable Homes Connects with the Climate Fight First in a five-part series exploring the case for a Green New Deal for Housing. Experts in Canada and beyond see overlapping solutions to two crises: housing affordability and climate change. This series talks to more than 20 of them. Illustration for The Tyee by Nora Kelly. Earlier […]
The Doomsday Scenario for the Stock and Housing Bubbles
The Doomsday Scenario for the Stock and Housing Bubbles It was always folly to believe that inflating asset bubbles could solve the structural problems of a post-industrial economy. The Doomsday Scenario for the stock and housing bubbles is simple: the Fed’s magic fails. When dropping interest rates to zero and flooding the financial sector with loose […]
2019: Zombie Markets Before The Fall
2019: Zombie Markets Before The Fall Francis Tattegrain La ramasseuse d’épaves (The Beachcomber) 1880 I haven’t really written about finance since April of this year, and given recent fluctuations in what people persist in calling the markets, maybe it’s time. Then again, nothing has changed since that article in April entitled This Is Not A […]
Toronto Home Prices Just Plunged At A Rate Not Seen Since 1996
Toronto Home Prices Just Plunged At A Rate Not Seen Since 1996 A seismic shift is currently underway in the Toronto real estate market which may have finally pricked Canada’s biggest bubble. In October, home prices plunged at the fastest pace in more than two decades, according to new data published by Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada’s Price Index for new […]
Vancouver Housing Starts Flash Red As Chart Rolls Over
Vancouver Housing Starts Flash Red As Chart Rolls Over Canadian housing construction starts slowed in August, coming in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 200,986 vs. 205,751 in July – missing expectations of 210,300, according to CBC. The decrease came as the annual pace of urban starts fell 2.5 per cent to 184,925 units. Starts of urban multiple-unit […]
The greedy little nation that sold its soul for house prices
The greedy little nation that sold its soul for house prices There was a time when Australia’s housing bubble was not much more than a curiosity. Contained mostly to Sydney it seemed it would pass with a little pop and be forgotten. Then there was a time when the bubble went national. And suddenly the […]
Neoliberalism, Pipelines, and Canadian Political Economy
Neoliberalism, Pipelines, and Canadian Political Economy Photo by Luke Jones | CC BY 2.0 The national debate about how to get diluted bitumen to trans-oceanic markets by means of a twinning of the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline route between Alberta and British Columbia – known as the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project – illustrates the […]
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything What if it were possible to make headway on all these issues with simple changes to our neighborhoods? What if we could cut our medical costs in half? What if we could give the average American an added five years of healthy life? What if we could […]
Why the American Dream of owning a big home is way overrated, in one chart
Why the American Dream of owning a big home is way overrated, in one chart Courtesy of Rogers & CowanDo you NEED this much space? From 1978 through 2015, the median size of the single-family home increased every year until it peaked at 2,467 square feet, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Then, in 2016, […]
Australians Face Huge Spike in Repayments as Interest-Only Home Loans Expire
Australians Face Huge Spike in Repayments as Interest-Only Home Loans Expire Day of Reckoning: Hundreds of thousands of interest-only loan terms expire each year for the next few years. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia’s central bank, warns of a $7000 Spike in Loan Repayments as interest-only term periods expire. Every year for […]
