Financial

The Politics of Economic Stupidity

January 21, 2015 0

JosephEStiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, was Chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of […]

Financial

What In The World Just Happened In Switzerland?

January 16, 2015 0

By Michael Snyder Central banks lie.  That is what they do.  Not too long ago, the Swiss National Bank promised that it would defend the euro/Swiss franc currency peg with the “utmost determination”.  But on […]

Commentary

We Are Entering An Era Of Shattered Illusions

January 8, 2015 0

By Brandon Smith The structure of history is held together by two essential and distinct kinds of links, two moments in time to which no one is immune: moments of epiphany, and moments of catastrophe. Sometimes, […]

Commentary

2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age

December 30, 2014 0

By The Automatic Earth Dorothea Lange Drought hit OK farm family on way to CA Aug 1936  From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there […]

Commentary

The Biggest Economic Story Going Into 2015 Is Not Oil

December 19, 2014 0

By The Automatic Earth Arthur Rothstein “Quack doctor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania” May 1938  Isn’t it fun to just watch the market numbers roll by from time to time as you go about your day, see Europe markets up […]

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