A Milestone In The Dust (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- Earlier this month, according to several peak oil bloggers, the world passed a milestone worth noting: the point at which oil, in constant dollars, became more expensive than ev ...

Step 9 of the Financial Meltdown (Nouriel Roubini)

In my February 5th piece on 12 Steps to a Financial Disaster I predicted - as Step 9 of the meltdown - that "one or two large and systemically important broker dealers" will "go belly up" and that ot ...

The Next Agriculture (John Michael Greer)

(Archruid Report) -- Archdruids take breaks from time to time, but the peak oil debate does not, and during my recent vacation a lively discussion sprang up on The Oil Drum about the future of agricu ...

In The Dark With Both Hands (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- Archdruid Report -- Composting, the theme of the last two Archdruid Report posts, has turned out to be unusually timely as the current winter draws toward its end. The prospects ...

Global systemic crisis / September 2008 - Phase of collapse of US real economy (LEAP/E2020)

Public announcement GEAB N°22 -- LEAP/E2020 -- Feb. 16, 2008 -- According to LEAP/E2020, the end of the third quarter of 2008 will be marked by a new tipping point in the unfolding of the global syst ...

The Little Steps That Matter (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- Archdruid Report -- Over the last few months, the uncomfortable phrase “peak oil” has started to appear more and more frequently in the mainstream media, and the usual denunciat ...

Deep Capture: CEO of Overstock.Com Lays It All Out (Patrick M. Byrne)

Editorial Note: What follows is an excerpt and a link to a collection of posts from the personal blog of Patrick M. Byrne, CEO of Overstock.Com, a NASDAQ-listed company with a market capitalization o ...

Back Up The Rabbit Hole (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- Archdruid Report -- One of the Archdruid Report's central purposes, the attempt to glimpse the future’s patterns in the Rohrshach inkblots of the present, poses a notoriously di ...

Avoid another subprime mess (Derek DeCloet)

Investment banking is a great business. The hours are inhuman and the job can be murder on family life; once, near the end of a long boom, a mergers specialist admitted to me that he'd been home for ...

American Liberty Teetering On Edge Of Abyss (Paul Craig Roberts)

Paul Craig Roberts -- Information Clearing House -- Jan. 28, 2008 -- “Your papers please” has long been a phrase associated with Hitler’s Gestapo. People without the Third Reich’s stamp of approval w ...

Crisis May Make 1929 Look Like 'A Walk In The Park' (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)

Twenty billion dollars here, $20 billion there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North Atlant ...