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Ruinous Debt to Create Futureless Suburbia

Sep 25th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
In our history, the American nation committed obvious sins against select groups of people, and we've paid bitterly for some of that. But now it's our sins against the land itself that threaten to sink the USA as a viable enterprise. It's odd, that in his otherwise excellent blow-by-blow account ("Eight ...read more

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Debt and the Fog of Numbers

Aug 11th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
One of main reasons behind the vast confusion now reigning in the USA, our failure to construct a coherent consensus about what is happening to us (or what to do about it), is our foolish obsession with econometrics -- viewing the world solely through the "lens" of mathematical models. We ...read more

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