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Forward Guidance
by James Howard Kuntsler “Guidance” is the new organizing credo of US financial life with Janet Yellen officially installed as the new Wizard of Oz at the Federal Reserve. Guidance refers to...
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All This and World War, Too?
by James Howard Kunstler The situation in Ukraine hotted up this weekend and threatens to blow this morning with the Kiev government affecting to send “anti-terrorist” troops into the eastern cities...
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Your Call Is Important To Us
by James Howard Kunstler Funny how, in the current national rapture of techno-narcissism, it is harder than ever to do something that for generations used to be as simple as pie: to get somebody on...
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Busybody Nation
by James Howard Kunstler If anyone above a kindergarten pay-grade has figured out America’s vital interest in the Ukraine, it has not been reported — or even leaked from the foundering vessel that is...
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Barbarism Versus Stupidism
by James Howard Kunstler In my lifetime, the USA has not blundered into a more incoherent, feckless, and unfavorable foreign policy quandary than we see today. The US-led campaign to tilt Ukraine to...
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We’ll Become ISIS
by James Howard Kunstler I played fiddle at a small-town, country dance last night with several other musicians and it was a merry enough time because that kind of self-made music has the power to...
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Must Be The Season of The Witch
by James Howard Kunstler As the Governor goblins at the Federal Reserve whistle past the graveyard of dead Quantitative Easing, and the US dollar magically expands like a prickly puffer fish, and...
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Real Life is Not Spin Art
by James Howard Kunstler The authorities keep emphasizing that the nurse who caught ebola from Thomas Eric Duncan was sealed in her haz-mat suit the whole time she cared for the poor fellow and blah...
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“Omenland”
by James Howard Kunstler Did a few loose strands of Ebola seep into the organs and tissues of global finance last week? The US equity markets sure enough puked, the Nikkei bled out through its...
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Tapering, Exiting, or Just Punting?
by James Howard Kunstler Oh, that sound you hear this morning is the distant roar of European equity markets puking after the latest round of phony bank “stress tests” — another exercise in pretend...
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The Fate of the Turtle
by James Howard Kunstler Anybody truly interested in government, and therefore politics, should be cognizant above all that ours have already entered systemic failure. The management of societal...
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The Instability Express
by James Howard Kunstler The mentally-challenged kibitzers “out there” — in the hills and hollows of the commentary universe, cable news, the blogosphere, and the pathetic vestige of newspaperdom —...
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Buy the All Time High
by James Howard Kunstler November 24, 2014 Wall Street is only one of several financial roach motels in what has become a giant slum of a global economy. Notional “money” scuttles in for safety and...
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Crash-O-Matic Finance
“Oil prices have dropped $50 a barrel. That may not sound like much. But when you take $107 and you take $57, that’s almost a 47 percent decline…!” – James Puplava, The Financial Sense News Network...
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Mr. Toad in Union Grove
Kunstler is teaching us patience, an attribute that our digital world is trying hard to render obsolete. It is an essential skill for the turn that our collective sense of passing time is poised to...
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If Wishes Were Loaves and Fishes
by James Howard Kunstler Janet Yellen and her Federal Reserve board of augurers might as well have spilled a bucket of goat entrails down the steps of the mysterious Eccles Building as they parsed,...
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Yakking with John Michael Greer
KunstlerCast no. 262 by James Howard Kunstler John Michael Greer is a prolific author of novels and non-fiction books about the collapse of industrial civilization. He has a particularly long view...
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A Cool Interval
by James Howard Kunster For the moment, while the racial grievances of 2014 have chilled on the polar vortex, and no unarmed black teens have been shot by cops for a couple of weeks, it might be a...
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All Twerked Out
by James Howard Kunstler Bruce Jenner’s journey to transgender sainthood was interrupted Saturday on the road to Malibu, and with it perhaps the Kardashian Klan’s hopes and dreams for achieving...
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