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The Next Financial Crisis Is Not Far Away

Posted on July 2, 2017 by

Recently, a Spanish group called “Ecologists in Action” asked me to give them a presentation on what kind of financial crisis we should expect. They wanted to know when it would be and how it would take place. The answer … Continue reading →

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2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart

Posted on January 10, 2017 by

Some people would argue that 2016 was the year that the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the “coming apart” process started in 2016, in my … Continue reading →

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How Researchers Could Miss the Real Energy Story

Posted on October 27, 2016 by

I have been telling a fairly different energy story from most energy researchers. How could I possibly be correct? What have other researchers been missing? The “standard” approach is to start from the amount of resources that we have of … Continue reading →

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An Updated Version of the “Peak Oil” Story

Posted on August 8, 2016 by

The Peak Oil story got some things right. Back in 1998, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère wrote an article published in Scientific American called, “The End of Cheap Oil.” In it they said: Our analysis of the discovery and production of oil … Continue reading →

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The real oil limits story; what other researchers missed

Posted on May 12, 2016 by

For a long time, a common assumption has been that the world will eventually “run out” of oil and other non-renewable resources. Instead, we seem to be running into surpluses and low prices. What is going on that was missed … Continue reading →

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