Don't have enough to worry about? Feeling too happy, too secure?
What if your cell phone explodes?
Or you could read about Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, predicting an "economc armageddon".
No one but the author bears any responsibility for the non-advertising content on this blog. AND PLEASE NOTE: the author neither necessarily uses nor endorses any product advertised on this blog.
November 26, 2004
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c9b9953ef00e550207fb98833
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
The comments to this entry are closed.
Recent Posts
- "The Champions League Final: Fünf brennende Fragen"
- "Musicians really ARE sexier"
- Fingertips, Parts I and II
- "The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid Is Your Liberal Arts Degree"
- "22 Amazing Destinations You Can See With Google Street Views"
- Good news
- "The Six Most Important Things You'll Learn At Racing School"
- "Daring architecture or giant monstrosities? Ridiculous buildings that are popping up all over China"
- "Damage Control for Dummies"
- Attempts to answer two interesting questions
The Door's Top 15 Posts on Economics
- Economics chutzpah award
- Again, the dopey idea that choice makes us worse off
- Excellent piece by Arnold Kling on 60s Liberals
- The Wall Street Journal seems to be mistaken about economists' pay
- Some notes on comparable worth
- Is Finland really that wonderful?
- Are Americans too stupid to save for retirement?
- Joseph Stiglitz makes either a bad joke or a mistake
- Where "unilateral effects" theory is leading the FTC
- Steve Margolis explains why people don't walk up escalators
- Recent research on economic growth
- J. Sanchez answers the charge that belief in free markets is like a religion
- A brief reply to What’s Wrong with Economics?
- Did GM destroy urban mass transit in America?
- Beating the NCAA tourney pool using economics
The Door's Top 12 Posts on Other Topics
- A dopey idea from John Edwards
- Book Tag
- Brilliant essay on the (mis)teaching of high school English
- I highly recommend the new movie Spellbound
- Leon Kass’s defense of dying is wrong
- The Door simplifies the NY Times’s complicated explanation for why Honda is successful.
- The Door's list of the Top 25 Movie Scenes of All Time
- The political affiliations of the American professorate
- Things about college admissions I had not known
- Walter C. Willett’s Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
- Why I oppose complete drug legalization
- Why teenagers shouldn't trust adults, reason #2931
Links
- 1-2 Knockout
- A Stitch in Haste
- Admissions Quest
- AtlanticBlog
- Betsy's Page
- Blog CRM
- Blog News Channel
- Bluematter
- Bryant Smith--Florida web designer
- Canadian Private Schools
- Change of Address
- Chicago Boyz
- Club for Growth
- Cold Spring Shops
- Conservative Grapevine
- Crackerjack Finance
- CRM Lowdown
- Daily Vegetable
- Division of Labour
- Dr. T's EconLinks
- EclectEcon
- Econlog
- Economics Internet Library
- Economics Roundtable
- Edugree
- Environmental Economics
- Espresso Pundit
- ForexFraud
- Greg Mankiw's Blog
- Houston's Clear Thinkers
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- Information on Local Schools
- Kids Prefer Cheese
- Knowledge Problem
- Mahalanobis
- MainStreet
- Marginal Revolution
- Market Power
- MarketObservation.com
- My Boarding School
- Newspapers--Online Newspapers Directory
- North State Blogs
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Oil Prices & Energy News: Crude Oil Price Charts, Investment Advice
- Pat Larkin's Value Journal
- Political Calculations
- Private School Review
- QandO - Free Markets, Free People
- Right Wing News
- SCSUScholars
- Sports Economist
- StockBlogs
- The Emirates Economist
- The Fledgling Economist
- The Link Kills Spam
- Tim Worstall
- Tom Rants
- Town Called Dobson
- Treatment Online
- Voluntary Xchange
- Web Directory
- Education News
- Whototake
Powered by TypePad
Member since 07/2003
Member since 07/2003
From the armageddon article:
>>Meanwhile, he notes that household debt is at record levels. Twenty years ago the total debt of U.S. households was equal to half the size of the economy. Today the figure is 85 percent.<<
Wow. What happens when we reach 100%?
Posted by: Stephanie Herman | November 28, 2004 at 06:13 PM