The Free And The Dead (James Howard Kunstler)

Over the last ten days, somebody shot the "Green Shoots" narrative in the head. There is no way the American economy can re-expand.

The Man in the Mirror (James Howard Kunstler)

America is "the man in the mirror," the gigantic, floundering Narcissus, sailing into the stormy seas of history.

A Snake Eating Its Own Tail (James Howard Kunstler)

The U.S. economic situation is going to get a lot worse.

Too Stupid To Survive (James Howard Kunstler)

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is perhaps the only surviving collective intelligence left in the United States that is producing ideas consistent with reality.

Lagging Recognition (James Howard Kunstler)

Mr. Obama should not waste another week pretending that we can keep this old system going. The public needs to know that we will be making our livings differently, inhabiting the landscape differentl ...

Shattered and Shuttered (James Howard Kunstler)

There is a dark sense of things shifting out there now in a major way. The tectonics of history are taking us to a strange place.

Wishes, Hopes, Fantasies (James Kunstler)

The bankruptcy of General Motors may set in motion a chain of events that will accelerate the destructive unwind of the bad credit economy, the damage to our bond values, the loss of faith in our cur ...

Bad Collateral (James Kunstler)

There is a whiff of revolution in the American air for the first time, really, since 1861. A lot of reasonable people see a good chance that our society will sink into disorder if these trends contin ...

Decoupling From Reality (James Kunstler)

It's not just the stock markets that have decoupled from reality as we enjoy the fragrant vapors of spring -- it's the entire conscious consensus of everybody holding the levers of power and opinion. ...

The Bottom (James Kunstler)

Personally, I think a lot of good things await us, but not the ones we're expecting.

The Joker (James Kunstler)

If the flu is the real deal, it will surely drive a stake through the faintly-beating heart of that invalid global economy, and possibly even continental-scaled economies like the United States, the ...