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We Have A Scalability Issue

We Have A Scalability Issue When the sea refuses to scale up to accommodate your shipwreck. Image credit Timur M via Unsplash At the dawn of the industrial revolution less than 1 billion humans inhabited this earth. We’ve consumed only a small proportion of the easy to access ores of iron, copper and coal. With the […]

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World Has Just ’10 Weeks’ of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage, Analyst Warns

A combine drives over stalks of soft red winter wheat during the harvest on a farm in Dixon, Illinois, on July 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Jim Young) World Has Just ’10 Weeks’ of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage, Analyst Warns The world has only about 10 weeks of wheat supplies left in storage amid the conflict in Ukraine and […]

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Citi: Soaring Energy Bills Raise Chances Of Windfall Taxes In Europe

Citi: Soaring Energy Bills Raise Chances Of Windfall Taxes In Europe Gas and electricity bills in Europe could jump to 4.5 percent of household disposable income in 2023. Rising utility bills raise pressure on politicians to implement windfall tax. Rising energy commodity prices weigh most on Eastern European countries. The higher the energy bills in […]

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Third of Global Population Killed in Next War Cycle – Charles Nenner

Third of Global Population Killed in Next War Cycle – Charles Nenner Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner says his analysis shows the world will start a huge war cycle by 2023.  This type of war is similar to WWII but much bigger.   Nenner explains, “The cycle work I do on wars starts […]

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Supply chains are never returning to ‘normal’

Supply chains are never returning to ‘normal’   Global supply chains are in flux. (Photo: Unsplash/Cameron Venti) The conventional wisdom at this time is that most of the world has moved on from the pandemic (except for China); therefore, supply chains will return to “normal.” Unfortunately, this is not the case. The world has permanently changed […]

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Limits and Beyond

Limits and Beyond 05 May 2022 – On the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth a new report to the Club of Rome – Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? once again takes stock and asks questions fundamental for the survival of humanity on a finite planet. The […]

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Hedges: No Way Out but War

Hedges: No Way Out but War Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana. Original Illustration by Mr. Fish — “No Guts No Glory” The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly […]

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35 Signs That Show The Supply Chain Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes

35 Signs That Show The Supply Chain Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes

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Let Them Eat Bugs… How Out of Touch Elites Reveal Their Contempt and What Comes Next

Let Them Eat Bugs… How Out of Touch Elites Reveal Their Contempt and What Comes Next Upon being told that the people had no bread, Marie Antoinette reportedly responded, “let them eat cake.” These infamous words were a stark illustration of the French elite’s careless indifference to the plight of ordinary people. Moreover, they likely […]

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India isn’t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same

India isn’t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same The war has triggered a huge spike in wheat prices, with Russia and Ukraine among the biggest exporters of the commodity. Many countries have banned wheat, as well as other food exports as a result of the Ukraine crisis. “As the […]

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Is the Future Already Written?

Is the Future Already Written? Image credit: Emile Guillemot Generally speaking the future is impossible to tell. The story of us could take many different paths branching into ever different versions of its current self. There are an infinite number futures, which we shape and select every day, every hour, every minute with our conscious decisions, […]

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The End Of Growth Is Here

The End Of Growth Is Here Thank God and not a moment too soon Photo by author — old truck — Slab City February 2022 It was bad before. Before we decided to exponentially increase the thermodynamic whoopee Kurt Vonnegut Jr. warned us about, but now, not only have we decided to add a whole […]

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Half a million Indians flee floods in northeast brought by rain

Half a million Indians flee floods in northeast brought by rain GUWAHATI, India, May 18 (Reuters) – More than 500,000 people have fled their homes in India’s northeastern state of Assam to escape heavy floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains that drowned seven, authorities said on Wednesday, as they warned the situation could worsen. One of […]

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Quick Shot Of Heat To Roast 100 Million People In Northeast

Quick Shot Of Heat To Roast 100 Million People In Northeast About 100 million people in the Northeast will be blasted with a quick shot of heat and humidity this Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures are expected to range between the upper 80s and mid-90s from Ohio to Washington, D.C. to Baltimore to Philadelphia to […]

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Rabobank: We Are In An Undeclared Global Economic War, And Worldwide Famine Is Coming

Rabobank: We Are In An Undeclared Global Economic War, And Worldwide Famine Is Coming How Dare You Markets whipsawed yesterday after bad US initial jobless claims and Philly Fed data, with stocks down and bond yields also lower, as was the US dollar. Commodities were a mixed picture, however, and oil prices rose around 5% again […]

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