January 2014 - Page 3 of 3 - The Automatic Earth

Smart Choices for the Coming Bust – Part 2

Jan 052014

January 5, 2014 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:32 pm Finance Tagged with: community, globalization, local currency, localization 22 Responses »

Smart Choices for the Coming Bust - Part 2

William Gedney Cornett family, Kentucky. Boy covered in dirt smoking cigarette 1964 Here’s part 2 (actually it’s part 1, I inadvertently mixed them up, sorry!, see first part here.) of Nicole’s interview at Vancouver’s PeakmomentTV, along with Laurence Boomert, about the practical aspects of decentralization and alternative currencies, issues that everyone, in our opinion, should at least give some very serious thought. Because whatever happens, and whether you think that the economy will crash or you don’t, communities can make

Smart Choices for the Coming Bust – Part 1

Jan 042014

January 4, 2014 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 3:22 pm Finance Tagged with: community, globalization, local currency, localization 1 Response »

Smart Choices for the Coming Bust - Part 1

William Gedney Cornett family, Kentucky. Family in car, baby looking back 1972 Peakmoment TV in Vancouver, Canada just published a two part interview with The Automatic Earth’s Nicole Foss, and her co-speaker on her recent US and Canada tour, Laurence Boomert. Just prior to that tour, Nicole and Laurence recorded our new download video series Facing the Future, which you are cordially invited to order from the TAE Store. It contains over 4 hours of what you see in the

Debt Rattle Jan 3 2014 – Dr. Doom Is On Xanax

Jan 032014

January 3, 2014 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 4:18 pm Finance Tagged with: credit, debt, deleveraging, prediction 5 Responses »

Debt Rattle Jan 3 2014 - Dr. Doom Is On Xanax

Marjory Collins Blowing horns on snowfree Bleecker Street on New Year’s Day January 1 1943 I’m not entirely sure that new year’s predictions are interesting enough to write about, certainly when they concern economic systems that are subject to some of the wildest and deepest manipulations in human history, with free markets a distant memory, but I’ll give it a shot, if only to give people the opportunity to vehemently disagree with me, always a barrel of fun. I thought

Everything Better Is Purchased At The Price Of Something Worse

Jan 012014

January 1, 2014 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 7:52 pm Finance 2 Responses »

Everything Better Is Purchased At The Price Of Something Worse

Jack Delano Illinois Central Railroad Yard 1942 I thought I’d start off 2014 on a philosophical note, with something that I hope perhaps people will remember as the year progresses, or even through the rest of their lives, and share with those around them. In my humble view, that would do the planet a world of good. But it’s not easy; we have wandered far. There are many things we have neglected and forgotten, if not never understood or even

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