FET (old posts)

Well, it appears I was ahead of the crowd on at least some of the issues I've been discussing in this blog. For starters, a previous blo...

I want to take a bit of a break from the financial crisis to talk about humanity, and more specifically, racial identity. The growing numbe...

Why is it that we expect our savings to ‘grow’ all by themselves? What would happen if our savings diminished over time instead? Let’s fir...

I read an intriguing article yesterday about the fundamental paradox that underlies the global phenomenon that is currently known as an ‘ec...

I spent a couple of hours this evening watching Chris Martenson’s Crash Cours e. For those interested in financial or environmental matters...

I thought it might be nice to put up on the front page a recent comment by Chris. He states: I can't quite get my intuition around this ...

I mentioned in my last blog that I would comment on the similarities between Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and the tradition of fraction...

Many of my blogs have been perceived as a little pessimistic. This final blog of the year is intended to provide some optimism. The positiv...

This blog is to help those interested in understanding why there is a debate between these two alternative policy options for reducing green...

My last blog was too brief, I suspect, for the challenging idea it presented. So I will elaborate a little further. The key point I want t...