Posts Tagged ‘ global economy ’

Strange Days of Debt, Peak Oil and Stock Rallies

Apr 7th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Even while a wave of reflex nausea washed over America last week, and the unemployment rolls swelled by much more than another half million, the greatest stock market suckers' rally in seventy years pulled in the last of the credulous. These are strange days. The earth is heaving and the ...read more


Economic Alarms

Jun 12th, 2008 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Macro Economics
Economic theory tries to deal with a limited number of factors and the mechanisms by which they interact. The main factors are population, food, energy, property, and manufactures, all of which are physical realities capable of being counted. They are the beans that bean counters count with. There are four ...read more