Category Archives: Book draft

Oil Limits and the Economy: One Story, Not Two

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Gail Tverberg

The two big stories of our day are (1) Our economic problems: The inability of economies to grow as rapidly as they would like, add as many jobs as they would like, and raise the standards of living of citizens … Continue reading →

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Our Oil Problems are Not Over!

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Gail Tverberg

If a person reads US newspapers, it is easy to get the impression that all of the world’s oil problems are over. But this is not really the case. An Overlooked Part of the Problem: High Oil Prices A major … Continue reading →

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Reaching Limits in a Finite World

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Gail Tverberg

We don’t usually think about it, but we live in a finite world. In other words, in theory we can count precisely how many atoms make up the earth. We can also theoretically count how many humans live on earth … Continue reading →

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High-Priced Fuel Syndrome

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

Governments and economists around the world have not figured out that what the world economy is suffering from, to varying degrees, is “high-priced fuel syndrome“. High-priced fuel syndrome has a number of symptoms: Slow economic growth, or contraction People in … Continue reading →

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The Close Tie Between Energy Consumption, Employment, and Recession

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Gail Tverberg

The number of jobs available to job-seekers has been a problem for quite a long tine now—since 2000 in the United States, and longer than that in Europe. If we look at the percentage of the US population who are … Continue reading →

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