{"id":38,"date":"2010-06-24T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schizosoph.wordpress.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-06-24T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T13:51:19","slug":"perhaps-the-mayan-calendar-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyabell.net\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the Mayan calendar is right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Niall Ferguson argues in this clip (from CNBC [I know, bublevision as Bill Fleckenstein called during the bubble years of the late 90s]), we&#8217;re headed for a major fiscal crisis, a death spiral, in two years. What is interesting, but perhaps wishful thinking on Ferguson&#8217;s part, is that he calls for a return to relationship banking as opposed to the current form of algorithm, microsecend transaction banking we have today. 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