Please God, just one more bubble
Blogged from the Kohala Coffee Mill on The Big Island in Hawaii, where we’re not thinking too much about the crazed financial markets for the next several days.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day July 15, 2008
When they keep saying there’s no reason for panic
How come every time a WSJ editorial tells us not to panic, we learn in subsequent hindsight, that Panicking is pretty much exactly what we should be doing? Only the truly cynical would say such rose-glasses editorials would give investment…
Peak oil doomster gloom
To paraphrase Waylon Jennings, Don’t you think this doomster bit has done got out of hand. That’s what Paul Kedrofsky asked on Twitter, “are peak oil theorists turning into doomster defeatists?”, linking to a discussion on The Oil Drum. Yeah,…
Running on empty: Life without cheap oil
Jim Kuntsler on how the end of cheap oil quite possibly means the end of mass-scale enterprises like industrial farming and a rise in political turmoil as the dispossessed see their way of life slip away. Kuntsler is even less…
Congress approval rating hits all-time lows
It’s now at 9%. Worse than Bush.