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Category Archives: Society
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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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
Posted in Collapsed & collapsing nations, West Africa
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
Posted in Economic Decline
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Our interlinked infrastructure is so vulnerable one piece can take the others down with it
This article by Robinson et al is a very prescient article written back in 1998, long before 9/11 and he also points out how vulnerable U.S. infrastructure is to cyberwar and cyberattacks at a time when our infrastructure wasn’t nearly … Continue reading
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Emergency drill: Cyberattack on electric grid
Preface. Although I am mainly concerned about peak oil, we’ve become so incredibly dependent on the electric grid, including electricity to pump oil at gas stations, that if the grid came down from an EMP or cyberattack, millions of people … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, CyberAttacks
Tagged cyber attack
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Cyber attack methods. Who are the cyber attackers?
This just in: Cyber criminals are planting chips in electric irons and kettles to launch spam attacks. A Russian TV channel had footage of an iron being opened up to reveal a “spy chip” with a small microphone that could … Continue reading
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Tagged cyber attack
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Cyber Attacks an unprecedented threat to U.S. National Security
Preface. This post contains extracts from 3 congressional hearings in the House of representatives session on cyber attacks. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy; When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the … Continue reading
Posted in China and War, Cyber, CyberAttacks, U.S. Congress Infrastructure
Tagged china, cyber war, cyberattack, united states
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