Global Systemic Crisis -- End Of 2008: Pension Funds Go Off The Rails (LEAP/E2020)

(March 16, 2008) -- According to LEAP/E2020, by the end of 2008, a formidable debacle will affect pension funds all over the world, endangering the entire system of capital-based pensions. This finan ...

The Paradox of Production (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- One of the things that makes the challenge of peak oil so insidious, and so resistant to quick fixes, is the way in which many things that seem like ingredients of a solution ar ...

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 ...