Broad Oak Magazine

Graph: Karl Denninger (2013) Karl Denninger graphs the S&P share index against total public and private debt in the US and conclude...

If you listen out for them, you'll hear them: voices telling you to prepare for disruption to normal civil life. Years ago, it'd be ...

The crush of the present distils wisdom : In general, my own prescription is all that I will share. I am 58 years old, and have amassed a fa...

Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal Hitchens (1): A great grey Tower of Babel reaches up into the sky over Europ...

Robin Hanson looks forward to being poor. But I fear the path there won't take us to the anonymous semi-contentment of the Dark Ages, be...

In Britain, there are 28.89 million employed - 72.5% of the "people of working age"; median earnings approach £25,000 . In China, ...

... in my view, the big crisis is ahead of us. It may come in 4 or 5 years' time, maybe only in 10 years' time, but the total breakd...

Marc Faber is now using the phrase "total collapse". A commenter on this post says he's joking, because he's smiling, but ...

Over at Financial Sense University, Jim Willie paints a frightening picture . He claims that the US Federal Reserve has been secretly giving...

Lots of people now muttering darkly. But if we think we know what They are up to , and think we can't thwart Them, there should be some ...

Jesse today , maintaining that inflation can indeed happen... Our own view is that a serious stagflation with further devaluation of the US ...

In a Dublin talk last week, Dmitri Orlov bears out my repeated theme of diversity, dispersion and disconnection - the way in which efficien...

I've said it before: you get the clearest explanations from someone who is in a hurry to move on to something else. Here is Dmitry Orlov...

Karl Denninger argues that the failed stimulus will lead to accelerating deflation in the US. His prediction is that demand for the dollar w...

Htp: Michael Panzer, for this : They are taking cash out of the bank in preparation for a long-haul bad time. A friend in Florida told me t...

The Contrarian Investor gives a lucid explanation of the potential consequences of deflation. In Australia (as in the UK, as I think I showe...

According to Paul Kedrosky ( htp: Tim Iacono ), Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke scared the wits out of Congress with references to a potentia...

From what I read, some people are becoming survivalist: storing food, water, medicines, cash, even weapons. Perhaps it's no coincidence ...

Michael Panzner finds another useful article, this time by Laura Coffey on making contingency plans for losing your job. I sent a circular t...

In turbulent times, we get an increase in prophets, astrologers, clairvoyants, magicians and mountebanks. Perhaps we can place more reliance...