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How our energy problem leads to a debt collapse problem

September 15, 2015

How our energy problem leads to a debt collapse problem Usually, we don’t stop to think about how the whole economy works together. A major reason is that we have been lacking data to see long-term relationships. In this post, I show some longer-term time series relating to energy growth, GDP growth, and debt growth–going back […]

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Here’s the Next Crisis “Nobody Saw Coming”

August 7, 2015

Here’s the Next Crisis “Nobody Saw Coming” When borrowing become prohibitive (or impossible) and raising taxes no longer generates more revenues, state and local governments will have to cut expenditures. Strangely enough, every easily foreseeable financial crisis is presented in the mainstream media as one that “nobody saw coming.” No doubt the crisis visible in these […]

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Portugal’s Debts Are (Also) Unsustainable

July 19, 2015

Portugal’s Debts Are (Also) Unsustainable Everyone seems to be focusing on Greece these days – a country so indebted that it needs even more loans to repay just a fraction of its gigantic credits. Clearly this is unsustainable and something has to give. Even the IMF agrees. But what about the other Southern European countries? Actually, […]

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Troika Says Greek Proposal Not Enough To Meet Targets, Serves As “Basis For Negotiations”

July 11, 2015

Troika Says Greek Proposal Not Enough To Meet Targets, Serves As “Basis For Negotiations” Early on Saturday morning, the Tsipras government passed the Greek bailout proposal which it told the Greek people to reject – which they did – less than a week earlier. The grotesque farce continued until the very end when 15 Syriza lawmakers who […]

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Financial Nonsense Overload

July 7, 2015

Financial Nonsense Overload Kelly Hensing “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad” goes a quote wrongly attributed to Euripides. It seems to describe the current state of affairs with regard to the unfolding Greek imbroglio. It is a Greek tragedy all right: we have the various Eurocrats—elected, unelected, and soon-to-be-unelected—stumbling about […]

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Troika Documents Say Greece Needs Huge Debt Relief

July 2, 2015

Troika Documents Say Greece Needs Huge Debt Relief Just when you think things can’t get any crazier, they always do. The Guardian reports on unpublished Troika documents that show Greece is only too right in asking for debt relief. That for the Syriza government to sign what the Troika wants to force them to sign […]

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