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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Cash is King in a deflation — but there are dangers
Risk 1: Capital controls Restrictions on bank withdrawals (no ATM withdrawals, no bill payments, etc) Restrictions on money market fund redemptions Greater restrictions on retirement fund liquidations Fixing an official exchange rate and criminalizing market rate transactions Banning the conversion … Continue reading
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How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Work
Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers By Ellen E. Schultz Portfolio/Penguin 2011 216 pages, in hardcover and paperback August 20, 2012. UE News – Summer 2012 issue We already knew that employers … Continue reading
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Why Treasury Bills are likely to be safe for at least a few years
my comment: SHORT-TERM 4-week or 13-week treasury BILLS that is Apr 19, 2012 Ilargi at the automaticearth.com Mauldin: unproductive government debt is killing us. So we either make some big, tough collective decisions, and make them soon; or we come … Continue reading
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After a nation crashes it can’t afford oil, collapse happens FAST
Why fixing energy policy is so difficult April 25, 2011 by Gail Tverberg Everyone would like to fix the US energy policy, but doing so is almost impossible, in my view, because we need to be planning for a much bigger … Continue reading
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Natural Gas used in Agriculture
Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century? May 2011 Post Carbon Institute Agriculture and Natural Gas by Michael Bomford Michael Bomford is a research scientist and extension specialist at Kentucky State University and an adjunct faculty member in … Continue reading
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Bill Black on why there aren’t any prosecutions for financial fraud
2011 Will Bring More De facto Decriminalization of Elite Financial Fraud Dec 28, 2010 Bill Black The role of the criminal justice system with regard to financial fraud by elite bankers in 2011 is likely to reprise its role last … Continue reading
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Inflation: defining and identifying it
Ilargy 2011 automatic earth The fact that there’s all that zombie money around (or zombie credit, to be precise) leads many to believe the US witnesses inflation. Not true. Inflation is not the same as rising prices. Prices can rise … Continue reading
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How you’re tricked into thinking there is an economic recovery
Ilargi 2011 theautomaticearth A real recovery would require a surge in real productivity, i.e. outside of the service industry. Where and how have we increased production since the crisis started? Obviously, nowhere. The vast majority of “jobs created” is in … Continue reading
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Predictions on how a crash will unfold
You can read Martin Weiss’ prediction here. Keep in mind that although these predictions were made years ago, and it seems as if some of them were wrong, all that’s happened is that the trillions of dollars given to banks … Continue reading
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Martin Weiss on how a crash unfolds and how to protect yourself
A massive default on debt servicing and obligations by states and localities will trigger a run on the banks. The credit inflation that has been growing over the last two decades will reverse in a nano-second and leave people who … Continue reading
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