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Productivity And Debt
Friday, August 4, 2017 10:17 AM EDT
America and Western Europe exported almost their entire manufacturing capacity to China etc. And how can you be productive if you don’t manufacture anything?
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Surplus Or Stimulus
Monday, April 24, 2017 1:58 PM EDT
A country in a shape as bad as Greece’s needs stimulus, not a budget surplus; a deficit would be much more helpful.
In this article: GREK
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You Are Not An Investor
Saturday, April 22, 2017 1:16 PM EDT
If we continue to use terms like ‘investor’ and ‘markets’ for what we see today, we would need to invent new terms for what these words once meant. Because they surely are not the same thing.
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The EU Is One Big Fatal Flaw
Friday, March 31, 2017 4:52 PM EDT
Germany and Holland are doing great, according to the most recent economic data. But how is that a reason to celebrate when Greece and Italy, among others, are not doing great at all?
In this article: EZU
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Our Economies Run On Housing Bubbles
Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:09 PM EDT
We are witnessing the demise of the world’s two largest economic power blocks, the US and EU.
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Austerity Kills. And Then Some
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 4:39 PM EDT
Austerity hurts the poor. For those who are living comfortably, which includes politicians and economists that “matter”, austerity at worst means eating and living somewhat less luxuriously.
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Peak Wealth And Peak Energy
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 5:59 AM EDT
The American dream was the product of industrious and clever people working hard within a relatively benign political system that encouraged business in various ways.
In this article: OIL
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When Was America’s Peak Wealth?
Thursday, February 23, 2017 12:28 PM EDT
When people see themselves as at constant risk of losing almost everything they are rarely happy campers. During the 70’s buyers and their lenders began offering ridiculous prices for houses.
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Not Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing
Saturday, February 18, 2017 3:16 PM EDT
It takes over $10 to create $1 of growth in the US and Europe, and China too moves towards such numbers.
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Renewables, Absolution And Deceit
Saturday, February 4, 2017 11:42 AM EDT
Green is still so sexy in certain circles, you might be inclined to think that the topic is so important for both the companies and the people they seek to please that grossly exaggerating the numbers would be out of the question, but not so.
In this article: GOOGL
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More Talk About Growth And Globalization
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:05 PM EDT
The world is changing rapidly and that will become even more evident in 2017. What comes next will be profoundly chaotic for quite a while.
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The IMF And All The Other Losers
Friday, October 7, 2016 3:36 PM EDT
The tight connection between an era of economic growth (and/or contraction) and the politicians that ‘rule’ during that era is reflected in Hazel Henderson’s“economics is nothing but politics in disguise”.
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China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP
Monday, September 19, 2016 12:24 PM EDT
Should Chinese outstanding loans and corporate debt be seen as public debt or private debt, given that the dividing line between state and corporations is as opaque and shifting as it is? Even the BIS looks confused.
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Negative Interest Rates And The War On Cash (Part 4)
Friday, September 9, 2016 4:41 AM EDT
In attempting to keep the credit bonanza going with their existing powers,central banks have set the global financial system up for an across-the-board asset price collapse.
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Negative Interest Rates And The War On Cash (Part 3)
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 9:18 AM EDT
There is an important distinction to be made between official electronic currency – allowing everyone to hold an account with the central bank — and private electronic currency. I
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Negative Interest Rates And The War On Cash (Part 2)
Monday, September 5, 2016 5:57 PM EDT
The greater the public’s desire to hold cash to protect themselves, the greater will be the incentive for central banks and governments to restrict its availability.
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