"Far From Normal" (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- "Far From Normal." Those were the words that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke used to describe the financial markets (and by extension the economy) these heady spring days when every ...

Monster of Ambition (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- I was pretty disturbed eight years ago when Hillary Clinton up and announced she was running for a New York seat in the U.S Senate. Say what? She didn't even live here after s ...

The Risk Economy (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- As the West's industrial regime sputters toward a cheap-energy-crackup conclusion, there have been attempts to recast what our economy is actually about, how to account for wh ...

Belief System (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- A friend asked me how come the public apparently grasps the reality of climate change but can’t seem to wrap its collective brain around the unfolding oil crisis.

Blind Spot (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- I happened to be flying into Minneapolis the very day that Northwest Airlines announced its merger with Delta -- Delta to be the more senior (more equal) partner -- in effect, ...

Rust and Sun (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- Last week I sojourned in two parts of the country that might have been separate nations: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and Austin, Texas.

Upscale (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- Things continue to slip, slide, and shift strangely Out There.

Black Swans Everywhere (James Kunstler)

(Clusterfuck Nation) -- After a one-day reprieve from total meltdown in the financial markets, news media cheerleaders for the most reckless gang of bankers in world history declared the crisis over ...

A Real Freak Out (James Kunstler)

Things are getting very weird very fast -- and will probably get even weirder, faster, as the train wreck of bad debt meets the Saint Paddy's Day Parade of bacchanalian excess at the grade-crossing o ...

Campaign Blues (James Kunstler)

James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation -- While it's gratifying to watch Hillary Clinton melt back into her senate seat -- in the process foiling the ascent of Emperor Bill the 1st -- one can't help bu ...

Still Pretending (James Kunstler)

James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation -- The maneuvers that the big banks are making nowadays, along with their enablers at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere in Washington, really amount to little mor ...