A month and a half ago, I posed the following question in Spain, Land of Magical Financial Realism:

These days when I read about Spain I'm wondering more and more how and why it is that the country has any access at all left to international [More...]

As everything connected to Europe seemed to fall apart even before US jobs numbers were announced, and we could say I told you so a thousand times when it comes to debt deflation and crunching credit and the rise of the US dollar, but won‘t, there' [More...]

What's really left to say about Spain, anymore? This 12th largest economy in the world now finds itself as close to financial meltdown as a country (other than Greece) can get, and it has gotten there by taking the most twisted and shady path that it [More...]

I would like to present an extremely depressing and disheartening article to you today, written by Surly of the Doomstead Diner. It contains a lengthy story that encapsulates all that is ass-backwards in modern consumerist cultures, where there is an [More...]

The dialogue between academics, officials, analysts and pundits in Europe has very obviously turned towards ways of spinning a Greek exit as a "good thing" for the system, or, at least, not such a "bad thing". Last week, we saw analysts at Bank of Am [More...]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS") is the federal agency in charge of "listing" most species under the Endangered Species Act ("ESA"). This legislation was passed in 1973 and explicitly stated its goal was "to protect critically imperiled spe [More...]