Tuesday, 27 September 2011

The Decline and Fall of Just About Everyone

By Pepe Escobar

Within the next 30 years, the top five will, according to Goldman Sachs, likely be China, the U.S., India, Brazil, and Mexico. Western Europe? Bye-bye! Continue



By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are getting by, maintaining living standards, by consuming their capital. Even those with a cushion are eating their seed corn. The path that the US economy is on means that the number of Americans without resources to sustain them will be rising. Continue



By Mike Whitney

While EU finance ministers smiled and played nice to their US hosts at the meetings in Washington, they have no intention of following Geithners' advice. Continue



By Paul Kingsnorth

Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened. Continue