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Category Archives: Financial Implications
Raising Interest Rates Is Like Starting a Fission Chain Reaction
Central bankers seem to think that adjusting interest rates is a nice little tool that they can easily handle. The problem is that higher interest rates affect the economy in many ways simultaneously. The lessons that seem to have been … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged diminishing returns, energy prices, inflation rate, oil prices
2,489 Comments
Nine Reasons Why Globalization Can’t Be Permanent
Since the late 1990s, globalization has seemed to be the great hope for the future. Now this great hope seems to be dimming. Globalization sets up conflict in the area of jobs. Countries around the world compete for development and jobs. … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged coal production, economic collapse, economic growth, oil prices, wage disparity
2,343 Comments
Will the World Economy Continue to “Roll Along” in 2018?
Once upon a time, we worried about oil and other energy. Now, a song from 1930 seems to be appropriate: Today, we have a surplus of oil, which we are trying to use up. That never happened before, or did … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged Depression, economic growth, energy supply, oil prices, oil supply
2,782 Comments
The Depression of the 1930s Was an Energy Crisis
Economists, including Ben Bernanke, give all kinds of reasons for the Great Depression of the 1930s. But what if the real reason for the Great Depression was an energy crisis? When I put together a chart of per capita energy … Continue reading
A Video Game Analogy to Our Energy Predicament
The way the world economy is manipulated by world leaders is a little like a giant video game. The object of the game is to keep the world economy growing, without too many adverse consequences to particular members of the … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged debt levels, economic growth, EROEI, high oil prices
2,300 Comments
