Originally posted by nebris at The Slow Crash by Ran Prieur
[Edited and annotated December 7, 2012. This is a nice work of fiction, and an interesting view of cutting edge doomer thinking in 2005. I can see now that my timeline was still much too fast, my vision of the changes was too catastrophic, and I was too optimistic about popular adaptations.] ( Read more... )

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There are times when I feel like we're all Moties, the aliens in Pournelle and Niven's The Mote in God's Eye. Here's what one of them looks like:


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Crossposted to the_recession and ontd_political, where it is awaiting moderation.

Middle class families face a triple whammy
Falling pensions, cuts and the banking crisis will impoverish many families, says Edmund Conway.
By Edmund Conway

You don't usually expect radical neo-Marxism from the International Monetary Fund - the last great bastion of capitalism, spreading ( Read more... )

Here is something I posted over in unfunnybusiness over on JournalFen and decided to share with my flist here on LJ.

Last week, cassildra posted about the federal government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how it scared her silly. This weekend, the possible End of Banking As We Know It (tm) continued with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the ( Read more... )