Michael Fox

                 

Michael Fox is a writer and economist based in Los Angeles. He has been a corporate controller, professor, and small business entrepreneur. After a life-altering accident, he spent five years learning more about medicine and the healthcare industry than he ever intended. In addition to writing about economics and related geopolitical issues, he is passionate about the performing arts and writes theatre, film, and opera criticism.

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42 Articles

Friday, July 18, 2008
Bush's Nixon-in-China Move – Iran as the "October Surprise"
(2 comments) History repeats itself, and October Surprises are nothing new. Michael Fox explains who's going to Teheran, and how gasoline will be $2.50 a gallon after labor day. And why none of it will really work, but it's worth calling their bluff.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Corporate Leaders Demanding Government Regulation
(5 comments) Did you get the letter yet? Did you see the hearings? CEOs are begging the government to re-institute regulation and oversight. It's a stunning change caused by deregulation run amok. Now even the intended beneficiaries have had enough. Enough is enough.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Horreur Nucléaire vs. Wind Power Now
(1 comments) Yesterday's under-reported nuclear accident in Southern France may contaminate the French Riviera. So why wouldn't the mainstream media report it right before tourism season? Michael Fox exposes this catastrophe. Meanwhile, uber-oilman T. Boone Pickens is unrolling his plan promoting wind farms and a clean energy future for the U.S. (without nukes). Read more...

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Fighting Petrofraud on the Fouth of July
Speak out with your wallet. Change your plans for the Fourth of July! Data show that U.S. and Chinese petroleum demand is finally going down in response to high prices. As the Fourth of July weekend is to Exxon what Christmas is to Macy's, cutting demand this weekend is a steop towards fighting back against unnecessarily high oil prices.

Monday, June 30, 2008
Petrofraud and the New Depression
How Bush's legacy may well be the unintentional shift to fuel efficiency and conservationism in the United States. It was brought about by thieving, war, and insatiably feeding his oligarchy, but nonetheless, the tide has turned and the American people now get it (after getting it for seven years, metaphorically). Today's column includes "what you can do"

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Blood in Your Tank: Petrofraud War
(2 comments) The war was the Mother of All R&D Expeditions - and four companies get the goods. What grade are you putting in your tank: A-, B-, or O-?

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
June is Bustin' Oil All Over
The petrofraud oil bubble is inevitably going to burst, and, exceeding the devastating unregulated financial bubbles before it, this one will not just cause ruin to millions of investors, but the blowback may take the perpetrators with it.

Monday, June 2, 2008
The Republican Revolution You Haven't Heard About
(1 comments) While the media have allotted 24-hr punditry and prognostication to the dull-as-dirt Democratic Primaries, the fasacinating story of the (still-continuing) Republican primaries has gone overlooked!

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Blowing Bubbles
(4 comments) One financial bubble after another has sustained the International investor class to the detriment of the American public. The latest bubble will cause much worse destruction than any of the previous ones. and it's already out of control.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Grain Market Manipulation = Petrofraud Redux
(1 comments) In what has to be the largest single theft in history, this week $150 billion will be distributed, via the American public, from the Treasury to the accounts of grain speculators and oil companies. Meanwhile, just try to find a bag of rice! The markets are being manipulated, and you're paying the tab (or starving). All coming to you courtesy of both Bush and Pelosi - extortion in the spirit of bipartisanship!

Saturday, April 26, 2008
The Other Costs of War: An Evening with Scott Ritter and Cole Miller
(2 comments) Meet two American heroes, Scott Ritter speaks truth to power to prevent war, and Cole Miller is helping the most innocent victims - innocent, severely burned Iraqi children. Let their stories inspire you!

Friday, April 25, 2008
The Other Costs of War: An Evening With Scott Ritter and Cole Miller
(1 comments) Two American heroes you should know more about: One confronting the human results of war, one child at time, and the other spreading truth and reason to try to avoid another war (again)...

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Fool's Gold
(11 comments) As Bernanke prints valueless money, devaluating the dollar more every month, the economy spirals into both hyperinflation and depression. The dollar coins in your pocket are made of fool's gold - but investing in the real stuff can save you from the worst that is yet to come.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Beat The Clock!
The deregulation crowd has but seven months to push through their ultimate goal of destroying every financial safeguard FDR put in place. The race is on to stop them!

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Deja News? -Why Online Media Matter
(1 comments) Support your online media, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because the mainstream media are lagging so far behind! Here's why sites such as this one are so cruciial!

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sour Sixteen, or The Dirty Diaper Theory
(1 comments) What year is this? The last year of a Bush administration leaves myriad travails for the successor. Economics, Bush style, leave a mess in their wake.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Putting Out the Fire With Gasoline
(1 comments) Keeping track of the financial collapse - and the yet-unnoticed transition to a fully fascist economy, with the first major, open, government-corporate merger.

Monday, March 17, 2008
The Stearnest Bear Market: Bloody Sunday
(1 comments) Good Morning! Is your bank still in business? Because Michael Fox was up all night watching the world's markets collapse (and most of the banks are down for the count!)

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Who's Sorry Now?
It's time for some serious atonement in New York - but from Wall Street, the financial press, and the architects of the new Depression!

Friday, March 7, 2008
American Banking Bunko: The WaMu Mob Gets The Loot
As Congress holds another toothless hearing on compensation practices, Michael Fox exposes the corrupt accounting being used at Washington Mutual

Friday, February 29, 2008
Crunch Time on the Bread Line
(5 comments) The worldwide grain shortage is coming to a grocery store near you - and expect staggering inflation on your food staples - from cookies to liquor!

Friday, February 22, 2008
Depression + Inflation + Famine = Chaos!
(9 comments) Housing down, Prices up, now Food supplies are threatened. It may be time to learn how to economically live through such times, because they're coming.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
When the Swiss Say Money's Tight, The Depression's Gone Global
UBS, the behemoth Swiss bank, has given up on auctioning American-issued bonds. Our deteriorating economy can't even find buyers for our debt anymore. The depression deepens - yet more!

Friday, February 8, 2008
Depression Enters Phase Two
(6 comments) The worldwide economy is crumbling faster than the polar icecap. This week, consumer credit is being cancelled, and the securities insurers are being downgraded. Gold, anyone?

Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Whoresrace
(2 comments) Michael Fox takes on the lazy whores of liberal media, who are doing no better at covering "the horserace" than anyone in the MSM.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Meet the Weimar Dollar
(1 comments) The Stimulus Package being pushed by Bush and Pelosi threatens to further deteriorate the value of the dollar. It's happened before...

Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Whoresrace
Michael Fox takes on the media's coverage of the presidential horserace - and it's not just the MSM tis time, but "progressive media" as well!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Rage, Wrath, and the Whole New World
(2 comments) Michael Fox is back, and presenting the controversial problem facing the economists and financial players who have awakened to learn that their religious belief in free-market deregulation has failed. Perhaps they may see a kinship in those communist economists who woke up in the 90s to discover their beliefs turned upside down.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Few, The Proud, The Vulnerable
(2 comments) The Marine Corps is inducting unfit recruits, and this is the story of one. This one hit too close to home.

Monday, December 17, 2007
The John Edwards Landslide
(5 comments)

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Double Digit Inflation is Here
(4 comments) Government statistics have been hidden so efficiently that there has been no coverage of the astoundingly high wholesale inflation rate- and you'd better know!

Saturday, December 8, 2007
County Counting on a Surfboard and a Prayer
Dare we take glee as wealthy, super-Republican Orange County, CA has become nearly insolvent after investing nearly a third of the County's treasury in mortgage-backed securities? Michael Fox thinks they won't learn a thing from it anyway - so go ahead and enjoy the schadenfreude.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Obama on the Line(s)
(2 comments) The discussion of drug use amongst presidential candidates, specifically Obama and Romney, reveals a larger sociopolitical problem: there is no reasonable discussion about drugs, and it's high time there was. Michael Fox takes on the vocabularly of "experimentation"

Friday, November 23, 2007
"No Regrets?" Mr. Greenspan Has No Shame!
(1 comments) Alan Greenspan sees utterly no personal responsibility for himself in the creation of the New Depression. Michael Fox has a few doubts for the man who refuses to acknowledge his share of the blame.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Rush Limbaugh vs.Yale Psychiatrist On Raising Boys
American boys are being raised in more enlightened ways, reflecting the progress in society. This, of course, doesn't sit well with pseudo macho Rush Limbaugh, who puts in his valueless two cents by attempting to deride the messenger, Yale University child psychiatrist Dr. Michael Kaplan, whose life's work has been dedicated to the development of healthy children

Saturday, November 17, 2007
Environmental in a Vacuum:Last Minute Briefing
Global Warming Forum - to be webcast today! Clinton, Edwards & Kucinich in L.A. to discuss environment (last minute event)

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tinseltown Gets Real
Report from the streets of L.A.: the whole town is standing by the striking writers. The "man on the street" is fed up with the power and gluttony of the media conglomerates.

Saturday, November 10, 2007
Surviving the New Depression II: The End of the Gilded Sultans
(1 comments) Demand an end to the new Gilded Age! In the second installment of his series on survivng the New Depression, Michael Fox takes on the AMT, taxing the Private Equities, and outrageous compenstions to failed CEOs.

Friday, November 9, 2007
After D-Day: Your Guide to the New Depression
(3 comments) The new depression has begun, and now it's up to us to heal it and create a new strong American economy. Herewith, the first three steps...

Friday, November 9, 2007
Why John Edwards Must be the Democratic Nominee
(8 comments) John Edwards is the most electable candidate, and the best choice for Democrats. Unlike Hillary and Obama, he is the corporate pirates' worst nightmare - and that's why they've marginalized him. Don't let him be overlooked.

Thursday, November 8, 2007
History Book's New D-Day: 11/07/07
(8 comments) The first day of the Depression

Thursday, November 8, 2007
In Cold Homophobes
The Phelps family, of the Westboro Baptist Church, famously the "God Hates Fags" crowd has got their comeuppance. And ironic legal representation.

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