U.S. Economy, 2010-2012: Inflation, Deflation or Hyperinflation?

Here is a 4-part essay on the outlook for the U.S. economy from www.dailycapitalist.com. I think the author's conclusions are pretty close to being on target.

Click here to see the entire article in pdf.

Clay Shirky

RBS tells clients to prepare for 'monster' money-printing by the Federal Reserve

As recovery starts to stall in the US and Europe with echoes of mid-1931, bond experts are once again dusting off a speech by Ben Bernanke given eight years ago as a freshman governor at the Federal Reserve.

Heavy, rough and hard – how the things we touch affect our judgments and decisions | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

Heavy, rough and hard – how the things we touch affect our judgments and decisions | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

Op-Ed Columnist - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com

Ladies and Gentlemen, the City Council of Detroit, Michigan, in Session

Yes, this is real. No, it is not acting or staged. From April 11, 2008.
As of May, 2010, the official unemployment rate in Detroit was 14.8%.

50 Statistics About the U.S. Economy That are Almost Too Crazy to Believe

39.68 million Americans are now on food stamps, which represents a new all-time record. But things look like they are going to get even worse. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011

Structural vs Cyclical Unemployment

Compare the charts during the two recessions and recoveries for job growth by industry.

50 Statistics About the U.S. Economy That are Almost Too Crazy to Believe

According to EconomicPolicyJournal.com, 32 U.S. states have already run out of funds to make unemployment benefit payments and so the federal government has been supplying these states with funds so that they can make their payments to the unemployed

Seth Godin: Tribes

Homemade Spy Satellite

Pacific Star II from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

50 Statistics About the U.S. Economy That Are Almost too Crazy to Believe

For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together