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Recent economic news: Peak oil

1.
The disintegration of the welfare state
Democracies produced Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, fulfilling the expectation of Socrates and Machiavelli that democracies end in tyranny. Now democracies are fulfilling the complementary expectation of Nobel laureate economist ...
Italy, Luisa Giuriato, Giuseppe Eusepi, GDP, Milton Friedman, All keywords...
theglobeandmail.com
1 month ago
2.
Lloyd's adds its voice to dire 'peak oil' warnings
One of the City's most respected institutions has warned of "catastrophic consequences" for businesses that fail to prepare for a world of increasing oil scarcity and a lower carbon economy. ...
Peak oil, Insurance market, Oil, Insurance claims, China, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 month ago
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Has the U.S. Reached Peak Vehicles?
Lester Brown, the author of the report, said the drop -- the first significant shrinkage the U.S. fleet has seen since record-keeping began in 1960 -- represents a "cultural shift ...
United States, Lester Brown, Peak oil, Earth Policy Institute, Earth Policy Institute, All keywords...
scientificamerican.com
2 months ago
4.
Michael Ruppert on Peak Oil, Collapse and Other Bedtime Fun
By Paul Kedrosky · Wednesday, May 19, 2010 · Michael "Collapse" Ruppert is back with a new talk on peak oil, societal end-games, and the like. Worth watchi
Michael Ruppert, Peak oil, Michael "Collapse" Ruppert, All keywords...
paul.kedrosky.com
3 months ago
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Where would we be without offshore oil?
The graph below shows total U.S. consumption of petroleum products (in red) and oil production from U.S. fields (in green). Consumption has been growing pretty steadily since 1981 while production ...
Oil, United States, Offshore oil, Gulf of Mexico, Oil imports, All keywords...
econbrowser.com
4 months ago
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Why Repegging the Yuan and Other Non-Free-Market Solutions to Trade Imbalances With China Will Fail
In spite of much yapping by economists, especially Paul Krugman, I strongly doubt a currency repeg by China would do much (if indeed anything at all) to cure any global ...
United States, China, Federal Government, Mike "Mish" Shedlock, Paul Krugman, All keywords...
blogspot.com
5 months ago
7.
Branson jumps on Peak Oil Bandwagon
Sir Richard Branson and fellow business leaders will tell the government this week that it needs to act
Oil, Peak oil, Richard Branson, UK government, Chief executive, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
6 months ago
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