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It hurts. When a bigtime Harvard economist writes off your city as a loss, and says America should turn its back on you, it hurts. But Ed Glaeser’s dart tossing is but the smallest taste of what it’s like to live in place like Buffalo.
Newgeography.com | Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places
London Banker
First, hat tip to Barry Ritholtz for the articles linked here. I read two of the articles, written on opposite sides of the planet, one after another, and suddenly the dangers confronting us in political instability were much clearer.
The Financial Crisis: Will It Lead to America's Decline?
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A.
“One of the Fingers on the Button Will be German”: German Economic Preferences over EU Institutions and the Irish Economic Crisis — Crooked Timber
Most of the contributions to this seminar begin with Germany’s internal politics and work outwards.
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Fed Hosts Global Gathering on Easy Money ... The world's leading central bankers have spent much of the past few months putting out financial fires and launching measures aimed at recharging the global economy. On Friday, they will gather here to gauge the impact of their easy-money policies—including whether the controversial bond-buying strategy known as "quantitative easing" is a good weapon to keep in their monetary arsenals.
Europe’s leaders — that is to say German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the bureaucrats running the various eurozone agencies from Brussels — have looked into the abyss and don’t like what they see.
Your Ringside Seat to the Global Financial Crisis – DollarCollapse.com
My summary of our unsustainable system and the pathway to a sustainable economy and society are laid out in my new book, Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change .
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James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation Just out! Kindle edition of JHK's long-lost 1985 novel An Embarrassment of Riches .