Easy Money is Dangerous Without Activist Fiscal Policy
Why over-reliance on monetary policy and the failure to engage in fiscal deficits is a toxic mix.
Read more...Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios
Why the ECB is Going to Print, Print, PRINT!
The ECB is set to dig its hole even deeper….
Read more...Is the US Headed Towards War in Syria?
A hard look at US belligerence in Syria by Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson.
Read more...Act on Air Pollution, the Silent Killer
Air pollution is a serious problem in Malaysia and other Asian countries, yet official recognition and responses are sorely lagging.
Read more...Bill Black: Debt Derangement Syndrome – Saving Our Grandkids from Wall Street
Debt scaremongering is baaack! Why Pete Peterson and his budget falsehoods are a danger to your and your grandkids’ financial health.
Read more...Rise of the Politics of Rage
Is rage the undercurrent of increasingly anti-globalist politics?
Read more...Another Huge Brexit Spanner in the Works: UK Faces Customs Train Wreck With Need for IT Upgrade
The UK faces a customs nightmare as IT systems needed to handle the new volumes and requirements are almost certain not to be ready on time.
Read more...Ilargi: Ungovernability
“Ungovernability: or why the legitimacy crisis will only get worse.
Read more...China’s Insanely Leveraged Housing Market Will Enter Its Secular Bear Market In 2017
Why China’s fabulously leveraged housing market may finally be on the verge of a long-anticipated implosion.
Read more...Ilargi: Why the Energy Crisis is Coming Sooner Than Most Experts Forecast
Why the timeframe for replacing oil is much shorter than most experts believe, making a crisis almost impossible to avoid.
Read more...Podcast: Iceland – Offshorisation, Collapse and Recovery. What Are the Lessons?
A discussion of the role that offshore played in Iceland’s banking bubble and implosion, plus a high level corruption scandal in Spain.
Read more...Nick Turse: The Killing Fields of South Sudan
An in-depth portrait of one of the worst ravages of war: killing fields.
Read more...We’re Not in a New Cold War – It’s Far Worse
Why the current tensions with Russia are as bad as in the worst periods of the Cold War.
Read more...Why Italy’s Banking Crisis is Spiraling Out of Control
Even by the standards of European kick-the-can-down-the-road exercises, measures to stave of an Italian banking crisis are really slapdash.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Considering the Coming Megadrought in the American Southwest
The megadrought is coming….and it is not pretty.
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