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Nicole Foss presents: Challenge and Choices

Nov 222015

November 22, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 2:56 pm Finance Tagged with: carrying capacity, community, limits, resilience, resources, risk, skills, solutions, uncertainty Comments Off

Nicole Foss presents: Challenge and Choices

Theodor Horydczak Washington Monument 1933 The Automatic Earth today releases its newest video presentation by Nicole Foss. Entitled ‘Challenge and Choices’, it deals with the problems presented to us by the earth’s limits to growth, in finance, energy and the natural world, and with the options and answers that exist in face of these problems. To purchase the 3-hour video download of Challenge and Choices, go to our store. Click this image to get there: Nicole Foss: After more than

Debt Rattle November 22 2015

Nov 222015

November 22, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:38 am Finance Tagged with: care homes, container, default, electricity, leverage, loans, oil, Saudi, trees 2 Responses »

Marjory Collins “Italian girls watching US Army parade on Mott Street, New York” 1942 • Will $4.6 Trillion Leveraged Loan Market Cause Next Financial Crisis? (Cohan) • Asia-Europe Container Freight Rates Drop 70% in 3 Weeks (Reuters) • Nightmare of Mario Draghi’s Crowded Trade (FT) • The Long, Cold Winter Ahead (Tenebrarum) • Oil Companies Brace For Big Wave Of Debt Defaults (CNBC) • Eurozone Agrees Greece Can Get Next Loan Tranche, Cash For Bank Recap (Reuters) • Half Of

Debt Rattle November 21 2015

Nov 212015

November 21, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:44 am Finance Tagged with: bankruptcies, BoJ, buybacks, ECB, oil, Petrobras, QE, refugees, Saudi, subprime, VW 6 Responses »

Frances Benjamin Johnston Courtyard, 620-621 Gov. Nicholls Street, New Orleans 1937 • Total US Household Debt Hits $12.1 Trillion As Subprime Auto Lending Jumps (WSJ) • US Oil Producer Bankruptcies Are Piling Up (WSJ) • Low Crude Prices Catch Up With the US Oil Patch (WSJ) • Speculators Test Saudi Currency As Oil Crisis Deepens (AEP) • Petrobras’s Dangerous Debt Math: $24 Billion Owed in 24 Months (Bloomberg) • Bank of Japan To Switch To Indicators That Show Rising Prices

Debt Rattle November 20 2015

Nov 202015

November 20, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:28 am Finance Tagged with: bitcoin, China, drones, EU, euro, GMO, homeless, housing, oil, refugees, Syria, VW 6 Responses »

Marjory Collins “Crowds at Pennsylvania Station, New York” Aug 1942 • This Is What Will Kill The EU (Novak) • Goldman Eyes $20 Oil As Glut Overwhelms Storage Sites (AEP) • China Has a $1.2 Trillion Ponzi Finance Problem (Bloomberg) • A Hard Landing in China Could ‘Shake the World’ (Bloomberg) • The Real Reason Behind China’s Latest ‘Stimulus’ (CNBC) • China Cracks $64 Billion ‘Underground Bank’ Moving Money Abroad (Bloomberg) • China’s Yuan May Enter IMF Basket With Lower

The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago

Nov 192015

November 19, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:28 am Finance Tagged with: bad loans, China, coal, credit, debt, leverage, overcapacity, SDR, steel, Xi 6 Responses »

The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago

Robert Capa Anti-fascist militia women at Barcelona street barricade 1936 Looking through a bunch of numbers and graphs dealing with China recently, it occurred to us that perhaps we, and most others with us, may need to recalibrate our focus on what to emphasize amongst everything we read and hear, if we’re looking to interpret what’s happening in and with the country’s economy. It was only fair -perhaps even inevitable- that oil would be the first major commodity to dive

Debt Rattle November 19 2015

Nov 192015

November 19, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:51 am Finance Tagged with: antibiotics, China, copper, debt, EU, Fed, intolerance, refugees, steel, zinc 2 Responses »

Wyland Stanley REO taxicab, San Francisco 1924 • China’s Steel Industry Peers Into Abyss as Output to Plunge (Bloomberg) • Rio Tinto’s Optimistic About Iron Ore And That’s Reason To Worry (Bloomberg) • Zinc Lowest in 6 Years, Nickel at 12-Year Low on China Concerns (Bloomberg) • Can Anything Stop Companies From Loading Up on Debt? UBS Says No. (Alloway) • Debt, The Never-Ending Story (Economist) • Finland’s Depression Is The Final Indictment Of Europe’s Monetary Union (AEP) • China

Debt Rattle November 18 2015

Nov 182015

November 18, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:56 am Finance Tagged with: arms sales, buybacks, cannibalize, China, El Nino, Paris, refugees, volunteers 5 Responses »

Christopher Helin Fisk Service garage, San Francisco 1934 • Corporate America Cannibalizes Itself With Stock Buybacks (Reuters) • Fear Spreads as China’s Finance Firms Face Arrests (Bloomberg) • Xi Says China’s Economy Resilient, Ample Room For Manoeuvring (AP) • Wall Street Is Running the World’s Central Banks (Bloomberg) • What Are The Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren? (Pettifor) • Arms Sales Becoming France’s New El Dorado, But At What Cost? (France24) • Eurodesperation (Coppola) • UK Plans to Prioritise Nuclear,

Debt Rattle November 17 2015

Nov 172015

November 17, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:26 am Finance Tagged with: bombs, EU, Finland, ISIS, oil, oversupply, Paris, Putin, refugees, Saudi, steel, yuan 16 Responses »

DPC “Grant’s Tomb. Rubber-neck auto on Riverside Drive, New York” 1911 • Steel Is the Poster Child For Oversupplied Commodity Markets (Bloomberg) • Oil Approaching $40 Deepens Investor Pessimism on Recovery (Bloomberg) • The Saudis Are Stumbling – And May Take The Middle-East Down With Them (Hallina) • US Approves Sale Of Smart Bombs To Saudi Arabia (Reuters) • Yuan’s Offshore Discount Widens as IMF Nod May Curb Intervention (Bloomberg) • India Exports Fall 17.5%, Imports Down 21.2% (LiveMint) •

Debt Rattle November 16 2015

Nov 162015

November 16, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:34 am Finance Tagged with: Abenomics, China, debt, Greece, Italy, Japan, Paris, recession, refugees, slowdown, snow 10 Responses »

DPC Pine Street below Kearney after the great San Francisco earthquake and fire 1906 • Japan ‘Quintuple Dip’ Recession Delivers A Fresh Blow To Abenomics (Reuters) • Asia Pacific Shares Fall Sharply On Paris Attacks, Japanese Recession (Guardian) • Quiet US Ports Spark Slowdown Fears (WSJ) • Debt Market Distortions Go Global as Nothing Makes Sense Anymore (Bloomberg) • China’s Currency Path and the Dollar-Debt Time Bomb (WSJ) • China’s Banks Aren’t Feeling the Love (Bloomberg) • As China Firms

9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/13

Nov 152015

November 15, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:47 pm Finance Tagged with: civilization, dead, media, narrative, oppressors, Paris, respect, terminal, terror 11 Responses »

Osama Hajjaj Madeleine Pleure 2015 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/13 = New York, Madrid, London, Paris Better to wait a day before writing, after a night like that. What does one write after such a night anyway? And why write anything at all if you can be dead sure to always antagonize some one on some side of some spectrum, ideological or not, no matter what you write, unless you tag some safe official line, and even then, or especially then?

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