Broad Oak Magazine

Eric Zuesse in "Washington's Blog " refers to and quotes from a Figaro article from last year, in which a centrist Euro-MP gi...

Karl Denninger looks at recently-failed US banks and by comparing their asset valuations with losses charged to the Federal Deposit Insuranc...

A few days ago on the Broad Oak Blog , I referred to Brad Setser's theory that China has been using the UK to make purchases of US Treas...

"People want to kill somebody, but they don't know who to shoot at" ...

Padders alerts me to this succinct WSJ article by Zakary Karabell, warning that just as the US leapfrogged a bankrupt Britain in 1945, China...

Last month, Marc Faber used the word "collapse"; now, Max Keiser says the same: the dollar will halve, gold will leap 50 - 100%, i...

D r Mark Perry reckons it's all been on the up-and-up since 1929. Yes, production has become more efficient over time. But can it be qu...

It's reported in the Press that UK national debt will reach c. £1 trillion by the end of the year, and when the Office of National Stati...

A chewy piece from Professor Perry about the widely-held perception that the American middle class has essentially gotten nowhere since 1980...

James Quinn raises another critical resource issue, namely, water. Taking his list "Total Renewable Freshwater Supply, by Country"...

I've said more than once that the housing market is segmented geographically and by price bracket, so discussion of house price movement...

Calculated Risk plots the actual and projected change in demographics from 1950 to 2050, adds the observation that over-65s cost 3 times as ...

Reading around in the wisdom of others, I predicted Dow 9,000 here , here and here . Now it's happened. Good for you day-traders, but a...

A propos China and monetary inflation, please see two very useful and enlightening articles by The Contrarian Investor - this explaining wh...

Interactive WSJ diachronic unemployment map here . (htp: Tim Iacono )

The dethroning of the US dollar as the international trading currency is under way. New bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund in t...

The Big Picture selects several articles for us on US debt. This one points out that to balance the US budget with borrowing, new bonds must...

A few days ago , I charted American public debt in the 2oth century. I also wrote to the Spectator (they didn't publish) to point out th...