The Automatic Earth

Toni Frissell Wave of the Future October 1948 The Automatic Earth is on the verge of introducing a whole new well over 4 hour video presentation shortly, entitled Facing the Future, which features Nicole Foss with our dear friend and “localizer” Laurence Boomert, and contains all new material only (no, we definitely do not sit still). Facing the Future is more densely jam-packed with information than anything we’ve presented yet (watching it once won’t do), so we’re very and rightly

Maurer Miss Universe June 1928 3rd International Pageant of Pulchritude and 9th Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Texas Last week, I was reading parts of a report issued by Japanese investment bank Nomura, which started out saying that the “Global Financial Crisis” is over. If I lay out a statement like that side by side with a lot of other things I see, I can only conclude that Nomura doesn’t reside in the same universe I do. Well, it’s either

Arthur Siegel 2nd Avenue Rush Hour, Detroit 1942 There has been a lot of attention focused on shenanigans at the federal level in the USA this year, with games of brinkmanship and political theatre over the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling and the government shutdown. Cheap political points were scored in a series of unedifying spectacles, but there was no serious risk of default, despite the dramatic rhetoric. It is not at the federal level that the rubber meets the

Toni Frissell “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy” 1957 Yes that’s right, The Automatic Earth has a new home (again)! It’s been a huge effort with the scarce means we must manage with, but it’s finally here. We hope you feel welcome here, and that we can now pick up where we left off, and start growing again on our way to what we think we should be: the biggest possible picture provider. Our good friend Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock was apparently fined €8000

Dorothea Lange Social Security Tattoo August 1939 “Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest, Oregon” Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying things will happen in this order and timeframe. Just that they’re going to if central banks and treasury departments don’t up the ante. But they will. The question becomes more important now whether it’ll be enough to continue keeping their – presumed – demons at bay. They can’t go on forever. You can inflate