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Low Oil Prices: Sign of a Debt Bubble Collapse, Leading to the End of Oil Supply?

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Gail Tverberg

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 →

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