I have something that I’m quite proud of to share with you this afternoon. It’s an essay called The Culture of Debt, and I wrote it about three years ago. At the time, the credit bubble was still growing, feeding a boom in real estate and fueling all manner of mindless consumption. I wrote this [...]
It was all smiles at the conclusion of the G20 summit held in London yesterday. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown babbled on about the emergence of a new world order – which will be composed of the very same self-serving politicians that he was bickering with just a few hours before this laughable announcement of [...]
Ronald Reagan must be doing cartwheels in his grave! I read an article in The Economist this week called “Greed – and Fear,” which is the first in a 14 page special report on the future of finance. I was struck by the opening statement, which described both the aftermath of the Soviet [...]