The Good News, and the Bad News
16 June 2009The good news is so obvious that half of the stories in the media are completely missing the point: We have likely avoided global economic oblivion. The Republicans, who are largely at fault for this horrible experience, have been incessantly whining about spending, self-dealing, and anything else their focus groups can come up with: how [...]
The Big Mistakes They Still Don’t See
29 December 2008Imagine this: SNS members now know that the real causes of the current economic crash, on a global dimension, came from the Japanese carry trade and huge petrodollar increases inflating the global liquidity bubble until it was unstable. Amazing that Fortune magazine would put a cover up claiming that a) the sub-prime mess was the [...]
A Few Last Desperate Consistently Self-Oriented Moves
5 December 2008Many people have been forced into having their own verbal and intellectual lenses for explaining the behaviors of George Bush. He can’t just be insane, so — what is it? What explains his behavior? Today, as Congress fished around for money to save the U.S. auto companies, in a pickle because they had not invested [...]
Spring Street International School Discovery Series
2 November 2008I am very proud to be one of the parents at SSIS; my son Evan has attended this great school for years. Last year, we developed the Discovery Speaker Series, intended to provide some waypoints for kids in high school looking at colleges and majors, and trying to figure out how to get from a [...]
KPLU NPR Interview: The Oil Bubble
25 September 2008From KPLU Radio and NPR: “When it comes to the troubles plaguing our economy, a lot of attention is being paid to bank failures and bailouts. But don’t forget about oil prices. In this month’s conversation, Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer about hot money and the oil bubble.” Listen now: [...]
Next Up: Was Oil Price Manipulation Involved?
16 September 2008I’ve been trying to think of the proper metaphor for what Hank Paulson is going through, but nothing really fits, not sports, not war. In the U.S., the financial subsectors are going into crisis one after the other, every few days. To some degree, Paulson is able to get slightly ahead of the curve (as [...]
BP’s Russian Adventure
7 August 2008I haven’t written about British Petroleum’s current and future experiences in Russia, mostly because – it’s so sad, and so predictable. Perhaps it’s also because I happen to be a shareholder, which means it bothers me on a personal level, and because I’m so fed up with the Putin/Stalin thread and Putin’s obvious puppet. And, [...]
The McCain Oil Price Premium
14 July 2008When you consider it, it is obvoius that there is a differential in oil pricing that will result from the coming US presidential election. But for some reason no one has brought this up anywhere, as far as I can tell. So let’s take a look. I first suggested this subject in my opening remarks [...]
Black Friday
7 June 2008Friday was tough in world and US markets, no matter what measure you use. Despite their reliance on unreliable numbers, the US govt. still admitted to remarkably high unemployment figures, and oil took twice the largest jump per day of anything seen in decades. The equities markets responded with negative vigor. Perhaps we’ve reached the [...]
The Price of Speculation
4 June 2008For the last few months I have become increasingly concerned that the large, unregulated pile of money sitting in the middle of the global living room (private equity, hedge funds, sovereign funds, private banking trades) is not only dangerous to the world because of its use in CDOs, derivatives, and other goofy instruments, but for [...]