Directory of Posts

This directory of posts is by subject, so as to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. When I can, I’ll be adding brief summaries to help readers get a sense of what each post is about:

Hyperinflation: 

• How Hyperinflation Will Happen (8/23/10) 

• Hyperinflation, Part II: What It Will Look Like (8/26/10) 

• A Termite Riddled House: Treasury Bonds (8/31/10) 

• Was Stagflation in ‘79 Really Hyperinflation? (9/16/10) 

• Signs Hyperinflation Is Arriving (10/28/10)

The Mortgage Mess: 

• The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy (10/7/10) 

• The Second Leg Down of America’s Death Spiral (10/12/10) 

• This Is What Brian and Ilsa Said To Their Bank: “Show Me The Note, Motherfucker!” (10/18/10) 

• Mulligan Mortgages—The Banks’ Only Way Out (10/21/10) 

Quantitative Easing 2:

• QE2 Will Sink Us (8/9/10)

• Two More Nails in the Dollar’s Coffin—the Republican “Victory” and the Fed’s QE2 (11/4/10)

• The Boiling Frog: Effects of QE2 on the Bottom 80% of the U.S. Population (11/8/10)

America, America: Who Discovered Your Edge: 

• Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State? (6/22/10)

• Selecting for Cynicism in the Ivy League (11/14/10)

• A Full Body Scan of American Corruption (11/21/10)

• The Case of Wikileaks, Part I—The Hacker’s Treehouse (12/7/10)

• The New McCarthyism, The Real Terrorists (12/10/10)

Europe Zoorope:

• “Systemic Contradictions”: The Eurozone De Facto Currency Peg, and The Death Spiral We Are Currently Witnessing (4/11/10)

• The Tidal Forces Ripping Europe Apart (11/12/10)

• Is Europe Coming Apart Faster Than Anticipated? (11/16/10)

• For Europe’s Future, Spain Is All That Matters (11/23/10)

• If Ireland Doesn’t Take The Bailout . . . (11/28/10)

Economics and It’s Failings: 

• “Extend & Pretend”: Where Are We After One [and a Half] Years of the Suspension of FASB Rules? (8/14/10)

• Professional “Literary” Writers, and The Federal Reserve (8/21/10)

• “Our God Is Money”: Economics Isn’t a Dismal Science—It’s An Ersatz Religion (10/26/10)

Random Businesses: 

• Wall Street’s Revenge On Hollywood (9/11/10)

• Has Facebook Peaked? (10/30/10)

• A New Model For Book Publishing That’s Really Quite Old—and Which Just Might Work (10/14/10)

• Social Security, and the Chilean AFP System (8/17/10) 

The Concept of the Corporation, Past & Present: 

• Why Corporations Matter, Part I (7/1/10)

• Corporate Entities As Modern Day Street Gangs (6/18/10)

Aesthetics & Art: 

• What is “Modernism”? What is “Post-Modernism”? (9/25/10)

• The Acid-Laced Satire of Pixar’s Movies (11/6/10)

Hot Button Issues: 

• Rape, Abortion, and Reproductive Violence (9/18/10)

• The Death Penalty (6/28/10)

• A Thought Experiment: Iran (6/12/10)

Personal Issues: 

• Aphorisms (6/12/10)

• The Chilean Earthquake from a First Person Perspective (2/27/10)

• Statement On The Kotok Plagiarism (10/19/10)