Oversupply and Compression: How the Median House Price Will Fall from $215K to $70K
(July 30, 2008)

The Human Cost of Mal-investment and the Empire of Debt Collapsing
(July 29, 2008)

The Grand Summary: Our Empire of Debt Is Collapsing
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Haiku and More on Oil
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Is Oil Set to Crash? Two Views
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Yes, There Will Be Armageddon: Government Goes Bankrupt
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Housing's Headwinds: Demographics, Rising Rates, Peak Oil
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Are You Part of an Elite, and Don't Know It?
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Oil Down $16 to $130, Everything Wonderful Again: Not
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
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Is this Election Just More 'Bread and Circuses'?
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Is the U.S. Alcoholic, or Merely Schizophrenic?
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Why Fannie and Freddie Have Doomed Housing Prices, Regardless of Bailouts
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Saturday Quiz: Demand Destruction of Gasoline in the U.S.
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Turning a Profit on Abandoned McMansions and SUVs
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Of Onions and Oil: Don't Blame Speculators for Supply and Demand
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China's Challenges: U.S. Meltdown and Peak Oil
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Why Interest Rates Are Rising, and Will Keep on Rising
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Summer Reading Recommendations from Readers
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Patriotic Thoughts for the 4th of July
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Is It Possible to Escape The Consumerist Mindset?
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Alienation Nation
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A Good Con, and The Higher Level Con
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