Our choice is simple: either continue on the State-cartel path of complexity and rising costs that leads to a death spiral, or re-energize the forces of the market and community.
We are constantly told all our problems are too complex to be ad…
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Feedback, Unintended Consequences and Global Markets- Charles Hugh Smith
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
We cannot know that unintended consequences will always be destructive. Neither models nor projections have accurate track records in predicting the future.
It seems an appropriate time to re-examine why our ability to predict the future of co…
Charles Hugh Smith, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
About That $20 Trillion in Public Debt….
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Massive Federal deficits require higher taxes; ever-expanding public debt and higher debt service sets up a death spiral once new investment is crowded out by Federal borrowing.
In only three more years you’re talking $20 trillion in public debt f…
Charles Hugh Smith, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
The One Chart That Says It All
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
Depending on debt to fuel nominal growth leads to an economic death spiral.
Sometimes one chart says it all. Here is a chart of the S&P 500 (a broadly based measure of the U.S. stock market) in a ratio with total consumer credit, courtesy…
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When Debt is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil
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The Empire of Debt has only one end-point: a death spiral. It is evil and must be dismantled.
Ethics has no place in the Empire of Debt. The financialized Status Quo is careful to limit the language used to describe the situation in Greece …
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Is There No Shame?
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. ” ― William Faulkner
I wish I could believe William Faulkne…
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Gold, Oil and Dow: Death Spiral Update
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This commentary, posted on the SafeHaven website, lists 24 points about the economic “death spiral” that is upon us……… Here are two of ’em:
5. The “Death Spiral” is: Falling Stock Market, falling Bonds, falling US Dollar. Could it happen? Wel…
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Southern Europe in demographic death spiral
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/europe/02youth.html?hp
This article talks about the possibility of street action, and there have been some little dust-ups here and there, but my theory that as long as there’s pasta and olive oil on Momma’s kit…
