- (2009-12-01) Matt Stiles talks whether the bond default of Dubai World marks the beginning of a run on emerging markets or whether it is just a passing regional financial failure that will have little broader impact. Could Dubai World be the canary in the coal mine, foretelling a broader market crack-up just around the corner?
- (2009-11-25) John Berling Hardy explains how the economy, and society, are driven by the actions of an elite group that understand and orchestrate what happens, ensuring they always come out on top. The current global recession only makes sense when explained in the context of someone orchestrating things.
- (2009-11-20) Alan Hall talks about his latest research paper on Eugenics, which traces the rise and fall of the movement with the ups and downs of social attitudes throughout history. If the patterns Alan sees hold true, we could see a massive resurgence in an acceptance of ideologies to cleanse humanity of unwanted genes as the depression progresses. Already there are signs that human life is being talked about as a cancer plaguing the world.
- (2009-10-20) Re-defining terms: forget inflation and deflation. Matt Stiles (of http://futronomics.blogspot.com/) talks about how the recession is far from over, and that the entire inflation/deflation debate may be irrelevant since the very definitions used for these terms don’t describe the phenomena we are seeing in the global economy.
- (2009-10-20) Profiting from the recovery. Bill Conerly (of http://businomics.typepad.com/) explains how businesses should be preparing from the long-term economic recovery that is under way.
- (2009-10-18) Talking about financial armageddon. Michael Panzner (of http://www.financialarmageddon.com/) discusses his views of the global economic roadmap, and the “end of the American era”.
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