Posts Tagged ‘
economy ’
Apr 30th, 2009 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy, Featured
The other day I had lunch with a “brain trust,” of sorts. Participants included a retired executive from an aerospace company. This guy helped design and build many of the reconnaissance satellites that the U.S. has launched. There was a senior executive from a large steel company. There was a ...
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Tags: carbon-based fuel, climate change, economy
Posted in Energy, Featured |
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Apr 29th, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
People of good intentions and progressive predilection are scratching their heads wondering just how President Barack Obama managed to turn himself into George W. Bush Lite with sugar-on-top just twelve weeks after that fateful walk down the US Capitol's east stairway to the waiting helicopter. I'm hardly the first observer ...
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Tags: economy, flu, Long Emergency, revolution
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
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Feb 11th, 2009 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
We routinely talk about "the economy" as if it were a self-evident concept. We say "the economy is growing" and "the economy is in bad shape," without really discussing what it is exactly that we're referring to. There are three measures we use more or less interchangeably when we discuss ...
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Tags: economic growth, economy, employment, GDP
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Jan 1st, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Oil, Politics
There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume ...
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Tags: consumer economy, economy, Oil, Technology
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Oil, Politics |
14 comments
Dec 19th, 2008 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
The peak oil story has not been nullified by the scramble to unload every asset for cash -- including whomping gobs of oil contracts -- during this desperate season of bank liquidation. The main implication of the peak oil story is that we won't be able to generate the kind ...
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Tags: economy, Oil, Peak Oil
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
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Feb 5th, 2007 |
By Michael Shedlock |
Category: Macro Economics
I have seen a lot of articles over the past few months about rising delinquencies.
This article from December 2006 is typical: "Families Feel the Pressure as Mortgage Delinquency Rates Rise":
"America's middle class is already burdened by a trifecta of economic pressures: the labor market is slowing, household debt burdens are ...
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Tags: economy, foreclosures, mortgage delinquencies
Posted in Macro Economics |
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Jan 29th, 2007 |
By Michael Shedlock |
Category: Macro Economics
I received a phone call today from a professor of an esteemed university offering to teach a class on relationship management right here on Whiskey & Gunpowder. I was initially skeptical, and it took a bit of persuasion on his part, but once I heard a synopsis of the lessons, ...
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Tags: deflation, economy, employment, inflation, real estate market
Posted in Macro Economics |
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