Ireland: Boom Bust...Revolution?

This is the latest entry in Irish writer Eddy Stack's Blog. He's back in Ireland now. Eddy made a name for himself when he left Ireland for San Francisco –many years ago. He quickly became one of the movers-and-shakers in the Irish community there. I met him in 1996, while...

The boom-bust cycles of energy-rich Western Colorado

Over the course of the past decade, thousands of natural gas drilling rigs have been erected throughout tthe Piceance Basin of western Colorado causing many small towns in the area to experience booming economic...

Messing With Our Minds

This is a short video from the Renegade Economist Press Conference recently held in London, and one of a five part series of MUST SEE videos by English Economist and author Fred Harrison. In the second video,...

IRELAND: The credit wolves at the door

In Ireland, people got carried away with the consumer frenzy brought on by the Celtic Tiger era, with their designer homes and their shopping trips to New York and Europe. But now the tiger is dead, and the...

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