The ObamaCare website rollout fiasco, joined by the bait-and-switch “You can keep your current insurance (not)” tempest, obscure the fundamental quandary about so-called health-care in…
Posts published by “James Howard Kunstler”
Well, at least the poobahs cleared a path to the annual orgy of Christmas, which, along with the S&P 500, have become proxies for the…
There is one supreme and universal law of human relations in all its manifestations, social, political, economic, cultural: people create no end of mischief in…
Of course, everybody should have been worried a lot sooner than last week because the basic operating system of global banking is accounting fraud, and…
Over the years, I've spotlighted America's telephone system as the single best example of the diminishing returns of technology in everyday life. This sort of…
Those frightening sounds, sights, and odors on the wind this foreboding snowless winter — like emanations from some back ward of a global psychiatric hospital…
Last week, in an incident that didn't get much attention in the national news, a man named Tom Ball set himself on fire in front…
Imagine the fright mask that the Sofitel Hotel maid's face turned into when a black swan in the form of an international banking poobah waddled…
Taking in Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary, Inside Job, about the dark doings of Wall Street in our time, I confess I was awestruck all over…