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- Why the R/P Reserves to Production ratio does not show when oil will run out
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- Book Review of Grain Brain: Extraordinary claim not backed up by evidence
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- The insect apocalypse will kill billions more people than climate change
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Category Archives: Gold & Silver
The case for Gold
Gold, Infinite Debt, and the Problem of Capital Storage: Has The Hotelling Moment Arrived? March 9, 2011 Gregor Macdonald One of the reasons that gold retains its competitiveness as a capital-storage unit is the rather slow and plodding rate at … Continue reading
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Economics 101: Liquidity is a Loan, Why prices can go UP in a Deflation, do not buy Gold, and Much More
December 29, 2007. Karl Denninger. The Year In Review And a Look Ahead for 2008. market-ticker [I’ve snipped out a lot of this article, which is no longer available on the internet. It was very prescient, and even though some … Continue reading
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Mercury pollution
August 9, 2014. Missing mercury pollution is enough for mass poisoning. NewScientist. New data suggests that we still don’t know where our emissions of toxic mercury end up. Somewhere out there are tens of thousands of tons of missing mercury. … Continue reading
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Dailyreckoning
Preface. Bonner & Wiggins at the dailyreckoning called the 2008 housing crash in 2002 and the 2000 dot.com crash in 1999. They’ve got a lot right, a lot wrong, and are always entertaining to read. A few random excerpts are … Continue reading
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Why cash is better than gold
Why people buy gold To protect against inflation That’s a good reason, but the next crash will be deflationary like the 2008 crash, when stocks, homes, oil, gold, and everything else plummeted in value. Trillions of dollars vanished overnight. The … Continue reading
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