James Howard Kunstler – Are You Going To Entropy Faire?
By James Howard Kunstler Things are breaking loose. Holes have appeared in the fabric of fraud and lies that passes for the world money system. They are black holes, gravitationally sucking in the...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler – That Dreadful Day
By James Howard Kunstler For the moment, the trend seems pretty clear. Money from far and wide rushes into the US stock markets because every other conceivable place to stash money produces no return,...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler – Where the hell did all the gold go?
By James Howard Kunstler If the FBI can track down two homicidal Chechen nobodies inside of forty-eight hours of their Boston bombing caper, you kind of wonder how come the Bureau can’t detect the odor...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler – Drowning in the shallow end of the risk pool
By James Howard Kunstler Where on earth did Paul Krugman get the idea — expressed Monday morning — that ours is “a weak economy?” The Dow Jones Industrial Average is about to scale previously uncharted...
View ArticleDavid Brin – Can private prizes stimulate us to the stars?
By David Brin Grand challenges! It’s an approach to stimulating research and technology that has been around for a while, stretching back to the British longitude prize of the 1700s. Aviation medals...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler – Midyear digest of the melting-down economy
by James Howard Kunstler Wondering why the money world got its knickers in a twist last week? The answer is simple: the global economy is breaking apart and its constituent major players are doing...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler – The dreadful summer wind
by James Howard Kunstler The world is swiftly moving to the dangerous place where nations won’t be able to do business with each other because they don’t trust the institutions that control wealth,...
View ArticleDavid Brin – Is Libertarianism actually helping to bring back Feudalism?
By David Brin R.J. Eskow – on Salon – offers “11 Questions to see if Libertarians are Hypocrites.” And yes, most of Eskow’s posers certainly do set up some stark and thought-provoking contradictions –...
View ArticleWatch the State of the Union here, live!
We’ve got the streaming video for Tonigh’s State of the Union by President Obama, coming to you live at 9 pm Eastern/ 6 pm Pacific. Stay tuned for all the coverage The post Watch the State of the Union...
View ArticleMore Efficient Wind Power Builds Towards Renewable Future
So far, the story of US renewable energy transformation has skipped a key chapter, which is the exploitation of our massive offshore wind power potential The post More Efficient Wind Power Builds...
View ArticleWhy Republicans will vote for Bernie Sanders
Thom Hartman thinks that Republicans will eventually vote for Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump. Yes, even Republicans. Hartman points to recent polling that shows that on basic economics, Sanders is...
View ArticleObama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is in tatters (and that’s good)
By Meteor Blades Robert Kuttner writes America’s Collapsing Trade Initiatives: Chinese president Xi Jinping will be in Washington this week on an official state visit. President Obama had hoped to...
View ArticleBattle over Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal could last more than a year
By Meteor Blades The final text of the 30-chapter Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement may not be available until early next month, and the earliest vote on it in Congress will be February. But that...
View ArticleHillary Clinton rejects Trans-Pacific Partnership – pander or principle?
By Meteor Blades Some liberals expressed happy surprise Wednesday with Hillary Clinton’s announced opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which could make approval of TPP more difficult in a...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler – Will Fed rate hike prevent disaster, or bring it on?
By James Howard Kunstler “Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into….” — Oliver Hardy If ever such a thing was, the stage is set this Monday and Tuesday for a rush to the exits in financial...
View ArticleStar Wars is all that remains of the US economy
By James Howard Kunstler Theory du jour: the new Star Wars movie is sucking in whatever meager disposable lucre remains among the economically-flayed mid-to-lower orders of America. In fact, I propose...
View ArticleStock markets begin the next painful reality-value adjustment
By James Howard Kunstler It looks like 2016 will be the year that humanfolk learn that the stuff they value was not worth as much as they thought it was. It will be a harrowing process because a great...
View ArticleAfter decimating small towns, Walmart is now leaving
By Jeremy Bloom For years, Walmart’s business plan has been simple: Come into small towns (often with tax breaks and subsidies), out-compete local businesses and drive them into the ground. But with...
View ArticleBig coal using bankruptcy law to make YOU AND ME pay for their cleanup costs
By Mary Anne Hitt President, Sierra Club As the nation shifts to clean energy, big coal company bankruptcies have been making headlines, and that has left many people worried and wondering about what...
View ArticleJames Howard Kunstler: Ground Control to Captain Zhou Xiaochuan
By James Howard Kunstler Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page! Why would anybody suppose that the People’s Bank of China might want to tell the truth about anything that was within their...
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