"The Top 10 Hints of Global Reflation" from Financial Sense. This is long and very technical, but worth reading to understand what the future might bring.

The financial reality blog sums it all up nicely in today's post, "The World Has Changed".

Edit: "Don't Watch the Dow" from The Big Money via MeFi.

Further Edit: From Chaos Manor
( A Former Trader's Take )

"Our Phony Economy" from Harper's Magazine, June, 2008.

I've wanted to post this for a while, but didn't realize it was available for linking from the archives until it was linked on MeFi. I will state without reservation that this article is worth your time.

via harpers.org with a tip-of-the-topper to MeFi

Astarte and Amaterasu - The Diverging Destinies of Europe and Japan

Gapminder. Try military budget % of GDP vs. fertility rate for an enlightening result.

via TEDBlog

Witness the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, documenting the meltdown of the mortgage industry.

With the financial markets in apparent free-fall, it would be the perfect time for China to step in and expand her US$405.1 billion stake in our nearly US$9 trillion national debt with her US$1.33 trillion financial reserve. Yes that's trillion with a " ( Read more... )

I've tried explaining this before, but I never seem to get my point across as well as Colin Smith did today at slashdot.
It didn't used to be this way. A trade used to mean that two people exchanged something of value. A chicken for a duck. Both of them benefitted. Even when money came along, it still meant that both parties benefitted, they were ( Read more... )

Surprising no one, a private sector economist reveals that the government fudges the numbers for key economic metrics. Thus your personal sense that the economy is not that great despite the rosy numbers pushed through the news outlets is correct. Like most private economic newsletters, it's freaking expensive. However there's a section of open ( Read more... )

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Reposted from my /. comment in the discussion of Technology And The Decline of Gonzo Journalism. The irony of the fact that I have a blog consisting mostly of my opinions isn't lost on me. Then again, I'm not a "real" journalist.

In the current media climate, what journalism needs is FACTS backed up by well researched and thought out opinion. Not ( Read more... )