Category: disaster capitalism

Canada corruption disaster capitalism Politics Steve Uncategorized
March 25, 2009

Stop the Bailouts, Stop the Cuts

I was going to title this piece "Failure of CanWest = Failure of Conservatives = Failure of Capitalism", but that was too long.  And … given that the Cons are still in control of this country, the focus should instead be on the level of ripe corruption that is really annoying me. Before I go on, follow this link, express your ‘regrets’ with this call […]

disaster capitalism financial crisis Politics US economy
March 25, 2009

China Calls for New Reserve Currency

Original story here . In time, everyone will be calling for a more international approach to pricing everyting, including commodities, goods and services and maybe even US securities. This doesn’t bode well, of course, for the world’s largest printing press and the state of borrowing in the US. Potential outcomes:  a big drop in the value of the US currency on the global stage, a […]

disaster capitalism economics financial crisis The Corporation US economy
January 31, 2009

Just the EARLY Stages of Financial Collapse

Hi folks, For those of you in the crowd who are MA in Economics, I’ll remind you that we’re just at the beginning of financial collapse.  Shoving your finger, gloves, basketballs, bumpers, old tires, bins full of clothes from Goodwill and even elephants won’t stop the damn from breaking. I know … it’s a little gloomy, but I don’t feel like I’m being alarmist AT […]

disaster capitalism economics financial crisis US economy
January 31, 2009

World Debt

I know I’m a little stale with posting comment on this article (I’m trying to catch up on a number of things, blogging being one of them), but I still wanted to post this for the community that follow Excited Delirium. I’m a visual person and I found this graphic (warning:  PDF) and summary of creditors and debtors to be the most compelling piece of […]