The Illusion of the Perpetual Money Machine

We argue that the present crisis and stalling economy continuing since 2007 are rooted in the delusionary belief in policies based on a "perpetual money machine" type of thinking. We document strong evidence that, since the early 1980s, consumption has been increasingly funded by smaller savings, booming financial profits, wealth extracted from house price appreciation and explosive debt. This is in stark contrast with the productivity-fueled growth that was seen in the 1950s and 1960s. This transition, starting in the early 1980s, was further supported by a climate of deregulation and a massive growth in financial derivatives designed to spread and diversify the risks globally. The result has been a succession of bubbles and crashes, including the worldwide stock market bubble and great crash of October 1987, the savings and loans crisis of the 1980s, the burst in 1991 of the enormous Japanese real estate and stock market bubbles, the emerging markets bubbles and crashes in 1994 and 1997, the LTCM crisis of 1998, the dotcom bubble bursting in 2000, the recent house price bubbles, the financialization bubble via special investment vehicles, the stock market bubble, the commodity and oil bubbles and the debt bubbles, all developing jointly and feeding on each other. Rather than still hoping that real wealth will come out of money creation, we need fundamentally new ways of thinking. In uncertain times, it is essential, more than ever, to think in scenarios: what can happen in the future, and, what would be the effect on your wealth and capital? How can you protect against adverse scenarios? We thus end by examining the question "what can we do?" from the macro level, discussing the fundamental issue of incentives and of constructing and predicting scenarios as well as developing investment insights.Comment: 27 pages, 18 figures (Notenstein Academy White Paper Series

To Be Haunted: A Collection of Short Stories

This thesis is a work of collected pieces of fiction that seek to explore what it means to be haunted. By exploring the concept of ghosts, the pieces in this collection attempt to take a fresh approach to the traditional paranormal story

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (10/19/2011)

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island school newspaper.https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cigar/1022/thumbnail.jp

Gender in Literature

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of the Gender Roles portrayed in Literature. Contains Anna Lombard by Victoria Cross; The Beth Book by Sarah Grand; King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat; The Beetle by Richard March; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Perverse Martyrologies: An Interview with Ron Athey

This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW © 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis]; CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW is available online at: www. tandfonline.com. Article URL: http://www. tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1048-6801&date=2008&volume=18&issue=4&spage=50

The BG News June 10, 2015

The BGSU campus student newspaper June 10, 2015. Volume 94 - Issue 101https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/9850/thumbnail.jp

Spring 2010

Spring 2010. Full Issue, 148 pages in total including front matter & table of contents. Contents: Altongy, Stephanie, Rosary Beads by an Amerikaner, 8 Bergeron, Blake, Bricolage, 13 Bretz, Bobby, Daydream of a Temporal Trireme, 15 Brodeur, Jen, Day at the Museum, 16 Brooks, Dorothy Howe, Lost, 17 Callichio, David, Pyrrhus’ Latest Victory, 18 Camrud, Madelyn, Grieving, 29 Carr, Gladys Justin, Kwansaba for Richard Wright, 30 Carson, Jay, I Could Not Understand in Brazil, 31 Culver, Ralph, Taking Bluegill at Lake Seneca, 32 DesRoche, Robert, Hands, 34 Emerson, Donna L., Seperation in White, 35 Fox, Griffin, My Time Machine, 36 Frost, Sarah, Mumbai, 38 Jaffe, Daniel, Hubba Hubba, 39 Jones, Kelina, Ina, Luna, 43 Knoeller, Christian, October Inventory, 44 Krause, Richard, The Alumnus of the Year, 45 Krouse, Katie, Haunted, 55 Kurker, Rick, The Blind Charioteer, 56 Lader, Bruce, Tonic for the Blue Malady, 57 Leary, Conor, David Lied, 58 Leonardo, Beth, The Disguise Principle, 60 Lindau, Buff, Garden Lessons, 73 Lynch, Stephen, Paper Dolls, 74 Mack, Jesse, Letting the Mountain Do the Talking, 75 McCartney, Liam, The Album, 77 Mehrota, Tanuja, Garden, 82 Minoff, Ann, Listening, 83 Myers, Jed, Brave, 84 Neal, Dan, Ena’s Jug, 85 Otte, Timothy, Ars Persona, 91 Pajak, Jeff, Sock Sonnet, 92 Perel, Jane Lunin, Stolen Egg, 93 Perel, Jane Lunin, Bird-Watching, 94 Perel, Jane Lunin, Vinter, 95 Plante, Corey, Twelve-Hours to Self-Discovery, 96 Rauch, Richard T., Cigar Bands in an Ashtray, 101 Searfoss, Kaitlin, Home-A Sestina, 102 Shah, Sonya, Politics as Usual, 104 Stahlschmidt, Hans Jorg, Egret, 110 Torday, Dan, Weightlifters, 111 Twiddy, Elizabeth, Making My World of Cut-Paper Dolls, 122 Twiddy, Elizabeth, The Monarch, 124 Wasylyshyn, Karol M., Emperor’s Jacket, 125 Weyant, Andrew, The Curious Heist, 126 Whitman, Brendan, Empty Promises Filled with Lies, 137 Contributors, 138 Photography Longobardi, Matt, Austin, TX 2009, 65 Longobardi, Matt, Miami Beach, FL 2010, 66 Costello, Megan, Avalanche Vocals, 67 Costello, Megan, Accelerated Consciousness, 68 Green, Anegla, Dover Cliffs, 69 Green, Anegla, Portabello, 70 Mango, John, Summer Dish, 71 Mango, John, Untitled, 7

Spartan Daily, September 18, 2008

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