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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.
SHARE 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!
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 3, 2008 Sour Sixteen, or The Dirty Diaper Theory
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 3, 2008 Deja News? -Why Online Media Matter
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!
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 22, 2008 Putting Out the Fire With Gasoline
Keeping track of the financial collapse - and the yet-unnoticed transition to a fully fascist economy, with the first major, open, government-corporate merger.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 17, 2008 The Stearnest Bear Market: Bloody Sunday
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!)
SHARE 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!
SHARE 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
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, February 29, 2008 Crunch Time on the Bread Line
The worldwide grain shortage is coming to a grocery store near you - and expect staggering inflation on your food staples - from cookies to liquor!
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, February 22, 2008 Depression + Inflation + Famine = Chaos!
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.
SHARE 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!
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, February 8, 2008 Depression Enters Phase Two
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?
SHARE 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!
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 The Whoresrace
Michael Fox takes on the lazy whores of liberal media, who are doing no better at covering "the horserace" than anyone in the MSM.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 Meet the Weimar Dollar
The Stimulus Package being pushed by Bush and Pelosi threatens to further deteriorate the value of the dollar. It's happened before...
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 22, 2008 The Few, The Proud, The Vulnerable
The Marine Corps is inducting unfit recruits, and this is the story of one. This one hit too close to home.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Rage, Wrath, and the Whole New World
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 16, 2007 Double Digit Inflation is Here
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!
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 29, 2007 Obama on the Line(s)
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"