Innovation: Oil Supercycle You’ve heard of “fracking”… the cutting-edge technology critical to exploiting the American energy renaissance. But you haven’t heard of the new tech that will drive the next commodity...
‘Unnovations’
When people say “innovation” – especially people in business and investment – they say it with a smile. They say it like they’d say “cold beer,” as if it were always a good idea.
How the ‘Real World’ Becomes the Web
The Final Word: By Buck Sexton Machines have been making our lives easier since Archimedes was messing around with pulleys and levers some 2,000 years ago. And with the advances of telephony, computers and the Internet, the explosive acceleration of...
A most unusual gift and a legendary writer
Dear reader, You’ve heard from American Consequences feature contributor Porter Stansberry, editor of the Stansberry Digest, several times… He shared his “Escher Economy” thesis in our inaugural issue… he penned...
Inside This Issue: Innovations and Unnovations
Dear subscriber, Editor in chief P. J. O’Rourke here, letting you know that your next issue of American Consequences is now online. Appropriately enough, our new issue is about what’s new. You can view it by clicking on this link. For...
Are we having a bust or a boom?
Dear readers, You may have gotten some conflicting messages from our recent American Consequences issues… We have both warned about the things that are going wrong with easy-money central-bank policies in the “Escher Economy” and...
How Robber Barons Became Robin Hoods
Why anti-business business writers give tech titans a free pass on ‘red in tooth and claw’ capitalism… By Andrew Ferguson Among the enduring questions of American journalism – What happened to Amelia Earhart? Who was that guy...
The New Mutant Capitalism
Thirty years ago, it was simple… Now, it’s as if somebody took corporations and exposed them to atomic bomb test radiation. Letter from the Editor: From Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Something strange has happened to capitalism...
What’s the Connection?
Planning to store a fortune on the Internet is not a trivial matter…
The New E-Mail
Quietly duplicating a trade that changed 400 years of history in four hours…
and why its death has been predicted 129 times already
Wall Street’s Last Great Party Boy
The dying art of wining and dining on Wall Street By Turney Duff It’s Friday evening and one of the last great partiers on Wall Street has plans to stay in. The 47-year-old sales trader sits on a black Fendi Casa sofa while playing Grand Theft Auto...
Real Money and Why You Need It Now
Credit in excess of available real savings is a fraud... And it produces fraudulent, unsustainable growth.
