i follow jim willie's work, and aside from his over-the-top rhetoric, i have a lot of respect for him. my understanding is that he lives in costa rica because some government officials took offense at his constant trashing of the powers that be. according to jw, he was threatened by the govt with great bodily harm or worse if he didn't stop disparaging the govt, so he fled the country. since jw has been more or less correct in his predictions of the financial meltdown, while the treasury and fed kept telling us the damage would be contained, i give jw more credence.

i hadn't heard of karl denniger until yesterday, and based on that one piece of writing, it sounds to me like he's gone off his meds. that was little more than an ad hominem attack on jim willie, and denninger sounds like he is a shill for the government. i don't know anything else about him, but i doubt i would be interested in hearing anything else he had to say.