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Category Archives: Financial Implications
Energy and the Economy–Basic Principles and Feedback Loops
Does a fish know that its nose is wet? Probably not. It swims in water, and assumes that is the only way any animal lives. We live in an economic world. Economic models that were developed years ago were created … Continue reading
Inflation, Deflation, or Discontinuity?
A question that seems to come up quite often is, “Are we going to have inflation or deflation?” People want to figure out how to invest. Because of this, they want to know whether to expect a rise in prices, … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged deflation, discontinuity, inflation, interest rates, quantitative easing, recession, unemployment
348 Comments
Energy Products: Return on Investment is Already Too Low
My major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already too low to maintain the economic system we are accustomed … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged economic growth, energy return, EROEI, EROI, falling wages
242 Comments
High Oil Prices are Starting to Affect China and India
Update: Not long after I wrote this post, the EIA revised the oil consumption amounts by country that they had published a few days earlier. The numbers changed substantially for quite a few of the countries outside the US and Europe. … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged China oil consumption, high oil prices, India oil consumption, recession
259 Comments
What Would it Take to Get to a Steady State Economy?
Humans live in equilibrium with other species in a finite world. In such a world, there is never really a Steady State. Instead, there is a constant ebb and flow. For a while, one species may be dominant in an … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged collapse, GDP, population, steady state, steady state economy
441 Comments
