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Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down

December 15, 2020January 29, 2015 by James Magnus-Johnston

When prices are high, the debt-based Ponzi scheme functions; when prices sustain lows, the scheme unravels.

Categories Economy Tags financial bubbles, fractional reserve banking, limits to growth, steady-state economy Leave a comment

Déjà Vu All Over Again

December 15, 2020December 18, 2014 by John Michael Greer

Every square on the bingo card marked “economic debacle” has been filled in with a pen dipped in fracking fluid.

Categories Economy Tags financial bubbles, Fracking, oil prices, shale bubble Leave a comment

Heading Toward The Sidewalk

December 15, 2020August 21, 2014 by John Michael Greer

Talking about historical change is one thing when the changes under discussion are at some convenient remove in the past or the future. It’s quite another when the changes are already taking place.

Categories Society Tags economic collapse, financial bubbles, Fracking Leave a comment

Money System Mayhem?

December 15, 2020July 1, 2014 by Justin Ritchie

With Jim Rickards author of The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, and behavioral economist Colin Camerer.

Categories Economy Tags finance, financial bubbles, money, money as social construct Leave a comment

When Predatory Equity Hit the Big Apple

December 15, 2020April 9, 2014 by Laura Gottesdiener

How Private Equity Came to New York’s Rental Market — and What That Tells Us About the Future.

Categories Economy Tags affordable housing, financial bubbles, housing market Leave a comment

More evidence that capitalism never solves its crises

December 15, 2020February 6, 2014 by Jerome Roos

As David Harvey has noted, and as the ongoing emerging market panic confirms, capitalism never solves its crises — it merely moves them around geographically.

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