Author Archives: energyskeptic

Matt Taibbi : Commodity Scams on Wall Street Will Cause the Next Crash

Posted on February 15, 2014 by

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.

Posted on February 13, 2014 by

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 →

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Kaplan on West Africa

Posted on February 11, 2014 by

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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Ashvin Pandurangi: A Probabilistic Assessment Of Short-Term Inflation, Deflation, Hyperinflation And Serious Deflation

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

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

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

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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40 ways to lose your future

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

Nicole Foss on 40 ways to lose your future.  June 17 2009  theautomaticearth.com Deflation is inevitable due to Ponzi dynamics (see From the Top of the Great Pyramid) The collapse of credit will crash the money supply as credit is … Continue reading →

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Treasury Bills

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

Short-term treasury bills are the safest place to put money now.  See my book review of “The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide.  How to Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times” by Martin … Continue reading →

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How to preserve your wealth in the worst depression ever

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

A book review by Alice Friedemann, June 17, 2009, of: Weiss, Martin D. 2009. “The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide.  How to Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times”. Wiley. The economic crisis … Continue reading →

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Nicole Foss – Links to best posts

Posted on February 7, 2014 by

Although I have links to just a few of my favorite posts below by Nicole Foss (aka Stoneleigh) to get you started, the most valuable way to get up to speed  is to buy one or both of her DVD … Continue reading →

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We’ve taken over too much of the planet for pasture and crops

Posted on February 6, 2014 by

In the article “Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?” by Christopher Kemp in NewScientist, these charts of increasing intensity of pasture and crop land from 5000 BC (18,000,000 population) until 2000 (6,150,000,000 people) show that humans are laying … Continue reading →

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