Those inhabiting the economic wish-space got a case of the vapors last week when the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) published an annual…
With little to do while waiting for something possibly very bad to happen people tend to get jokey. That was how I…
There’s a good reason why nobody is paying attention to the election this year except the people who, one way or another, get…
Popping the rare earths bubble – Sober Look
By Walter Kurtz
October 15, 2012
In recent decades financial bubbles have been plentiful. From the US housing to the global uranium markets, bubbles seem to be simply inevitable (and generally can not be …
History is in a bad mood, as reflected in its acting troupe, the human race. What goes for the micro of an individual human personality…
The press wet its small-clothes over Mitt Romney’s ebullience in last Thursday’s so-called debate, as these joint interview contests are styled these days.…
Flying at higher platitudes in the thin upper air of his own mind last week, Republican candidate Mitt Romney remarked apropos of airplane travel: “[T]he…
I drove the eight miles from Cambridge to Greenwich, New York, around eight o’clock and the night was bell-jar clear. A scrim of deepest blue sky backlit the landscape of tender hills and valleys while on the ground I wended the twisting two-lane state highway 372 with my brights amplifying the yellow road signs and the iridescent lines on the pavement, alert for deer, who can kill you. The Talking Heads spastically warbled one…
Kunstler is always a fun read on Monday morning.
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Europe is giving new meaning to the term “bootstrapping,” the age-old (virtuous) idea of picking oneself up off the floor after some blow or reversal of fortune has laid you low. The new method might be called “skyhooking̶…