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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Low Oil Prices: Sign of a Debt Bubble Collapse, Leading to the End of Oil Supply?
Oil and other commodity prices have recently been dropping. Is this good news, or bad? I would argue that falling commodity prices are bad news. It likely means that the debt bubble which has been holding up the world economy … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged debt bubble, economic growth, low commodity prices, low oil prices, wage growth
1,074 Comments
An Energy-Related Reason Why US Healthcare Outcomes are Awful
Back in January 2013, the US Institute of Medicine published a report called U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. This poor health outcome for US citizens is in spite of the US spending twice as much as … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications, Food issues
Tagged life expectancy, morbidity rates, mortality rates, processed food
658 Comments
