Category Archives: Government Debt
The Hell of Technocratic Prevarication
“…and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.” – Homer, The Iliad Athens’ Burning The burden of being on top ultimately weighs a civilization down. Success is overreached. Advancement becomes unsustainable. Then, when everyone least expects it, something … Continue reading
2012: Predictions, Prognostications, and Prophecies
Before we turn the page to 2012 we must take a look back at the year that just passed so we can extract context for the year to come. Looking at where the stock market began and ended in 2011, … Continue reading
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
By all accounts the sky was falling on December 5, 2008. Several months before, credit market liquidity had glazed over like cold winter molasses and, after over 150-years of business, Lehman Brothers had ignominiously vanished from the face of the … Continue reading
Congressional Super Committee Farce
Shortly after the opening bell on Wednesday, the price of oil topped $100 per barrel…a 26 percent increase in less than two months. What gives? The Associated Press tells us it was the Labor Department’s Wednesday report, that consumer prices … Continue reading
