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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Pity Brazil’s Military Police. FEB. 19, 2014. Vanessa Barbara. New York Times.
Pity Brazil’s Military Police. FEB. 19, 2014. Vanessa Barbara. New York Times. In 2012, 1,890 Brazilians were killed by the police. 351 occurred in São Paulo — 20% of all homicides. Organized crime retaliated by killing 11 police officers and … Continue reading
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Gail Tverberg advice on what to do
Below are 2 columns of advice from Gail Tverberg. Feb 17, 2014. Reaching Limits to Growth: What Should our Response Be? Oil limits seem to be pushing us toward a permanent downturn, including a crash in credit availability, loss of … Continue reading
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Colombia’s Warning for Mexico
Preface. This is a pattern you see over and over again in civil wars and collapsing bits of nations no longer under government control Abadfeb’s editorial reminds me of feudalism. Until the rise of state-level armies in the 17th century, … Continue reading
Eduardo Porter : Next Crisis from Rising Interest Rates? (New York Times)
A World Unprepared, Again, for Rising Interest Rates. Feb 11, 2014. Eduardo Porter. New York Times. I was living in São Paulo in 1997 when, out of the blue, an investment banker I knew called to ask about Brazilian cocktails. … Continue reading
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Banks get around Bonus Rules = less money to take back after risky bets go bad
February 13, 2014. Banks in London Devise Way Around Europe’s Bonus Rules. Jenny Anderson. New York Times. Since the 2008 crisis, regulators around the world have tried to rein in bonuses, worried that big payouts encourage excessive risk-taking by bankers … Continue reading
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Matt Taibbi : Commodity Scams on Wall Street Will Cause the Next Crash
The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever. Matt Taibbi. February 12, 2014. … Continue reading
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Set the planet on fire: Burn underground coal to gasify it. Worse than Fracking.
Fire in the hole: After fracking comes coal. 13 February 2014 by Fred Pearce. NewScientist. Setting fire to coal underground could answer our energy prayers, or start an environmental disaster on a bigger scale than ever before. Without a way to … Continue reading
Posted in Coal, Global Warming
Tagged 10 degrees, coal gas, coal to gas, underground coal gasification
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Kaplan on West Africa
Preface. This article interest me because I want to understand what collapse from energy decline will be like where I live. The same patterns appear over and over in this category of collapsed and collapsing nations. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com Author … Continue reading
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Tagged Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, West Africa
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Ashvin Pandurangi: A Probabilistic Assessment Of Short-Term Inflation, Deflation, Hyperinflation And Serious Deflation
A Probabilistic Assessment Of Short-Term Inflation, Deflation, Hyperinflation And Serious Deflation. Nov 3, 2010. Ashvin Pandurangi. The blogosphere has been rife with debates over whether the U.S. economy will experience inflation or deflation over the next year or two. Typically, … Continue reading
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Nicole Foss: Notes from videos, radio shows, newsletters
FSN Top Interviews 2010: Nicole Foss & Richard Russell at Financial Sense. Rural areas will be the first to lose access to electricity,with less priority than cities in a deflation, plus there’s no money to build up the grid, which … Continue reading
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