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The Sinking Titanic’s Great Pumps Finally Fail

July 11, 2020

The Sinking Titanic’s Great Pumps Finally Fail The greater fools still partying in the first-class lounge are in denial that even the greatest, most technologically advanced ship can sink. On April 14, 1912, the liner Titanic, considered unsinkable due to its watertight compartments and other features, struck a glancing blow against a massive iceberg on that moonless, weirdly […]

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Coronavirus and the “Unsinkable” Titanic Analogy

January 29, 2020

Coronavirus and the “Unsinkable” Titanic Analogy Unthinkable doesn’t mean unsinkable. As we all know, the “unsinkable” Titanic suffered a glancing collision with an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. A half-hour after the iceberg had opened six of the ship’s 16 watertight compartments, it was not at all apparent that the mighty vessel had […]

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Made For Each Other

February 13, 2017

Made For Each Other Don’t be fooled by the idiotic exertions of the Red team and the Blue team. They’re just playing a game of “Capture the Flag” on the deck of the Titanic. The ship is the techno-industrial economy. It’s going down because it has taken on too much water (debt), and the bilge […]

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Where On The Titanic Would You Like Your Deck Chair, Ma’am?

April 28, 2016

Where On The Titanic Would You Like Your Deck Chair, Ma’am? Last week I had the enticing experience of being denounced as a racist on one blog and castigated as a social justice warrior on another. As my regular readers know, such entertainments have been anything but rare since I launched The Archdruid Report just under ten […]

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Why Our Financial System Is Like the Titanic

March 15, 2016

Why Our Financial System Is Like the Titanic  The “unsinkable” global financial system is rushing headlong toward its encounter with the iceberg. Why did the Titanic sink, despite being considered unsinkable? The conventional answer is the design of its watertight compartments was flawed: the watertight bulkheads were limited in height to a few feet above the […]

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David Stockman On CNBC: ‘We’re On The Fiscal Titanic”

October 1, 2015

David Stockman On CNBC: ‘We’re On The Fiscal Titanic” A government shutdown would force Congress to address fiscal issues before they reach unmanageable levels, a former Reagan administration official contended Wednesday. “We’re on the fiscal Titanic and we’re going to hit something hard and immovable one of these days,” said David Stockman, director of the […]

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