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Is The Long-Anticipated Crash Now Upon Us?
Shutterstock Is The Long-Anticipated Crash Now Upon Us? Is this the market’s breaking point? I admit: I’m a permabear. This is no surprise to those who know and have followed me over the years. But I’m publicly proclaiming my ‘bearishness’ because doing so might open up a needed and long overdue dialog. Here’s my fundamental […]
Our Delusional Economy Is Poised To Slam Into The Brick Wall Of Reality
dailyhaha Our Delusional Economy Is Poised To Slam Into The Brick Wall Of Reality Will you thrive, merely survive, or fail? While life has always been uncertain, today our choices matter more than ever. The decisions each of us make today will determine if we thrive, merely survive, or fail during the future time of upheaval […]
The Whole System Is Rigged
The Whole System Is Rigged From elections to media to the markets, it’s all controlled As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe. Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. […]
What If There Isn’t Enough Energy Going Forward?
Nuttapong/Shutterstock What If There Isn’t Enough Energy Going Forward? We’ll be forced to live with less. Maybe a LOT less. Currently the media is breathlessly cheering the record amounts of US oil production. Stories like this one get top billing on major news websites: Texas Gulf Coast exports more oil than it imports for the […]
Why The Coming Oil Crunch Will Shock The World
Anton Balazh/Shutterstock Why The Coming Oil Crunch Will Shock The World And why we need a new energy strategy — fast. My years working in corporate strategy taught me that every strategic framework, no matter how complex (some I worked on were hundreds of pages long), boils down to just two things: Where do you […]
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything What if it were possible to make headway on all these issues with simple changes to our neighborhoods? What if we could cut our medical costs in half? What if we could give the average American an added five years of healthy life? What if we could […]
The Economy Is Cooked
© Albund | Dreamstime.com The Economy Is Cooked The growth cycle has peaked Hours ago, European Central Bank chief Mario Dragho conceded: “The growth cycle may have peaked” Of course, those paying attention to the data already knew this. Our politicians and central planers have been peddling to us the fantasy that the global economy […]
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
© Rangizzz | Dreamstime.com The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be Looks like we’re in for a much rockier ride than many expect This marks our our 10th year of doing this. And by “this”, we mean using data, logic and reason to support the very basic conclusion that infinite growth on a finite […]
The Core
The Core Jerome Liebling May Day Union Square Park New York City 1948Dr. D. peels the American political onion to get down to what it’s all about. I’m impressed. He explains America better than just about anyone. Turns out, there ain’t much left. So yeah, what happened? Dr. D: The news cycle runs so frenetically […]
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics It’s all about Energy Retun On Energy Invested (EROEI) Dr. Charles Hall may not be a name you instantly recognize, but it should be. Now a Professor Emeritus of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Dr. Hall is a rigorous researcher of energy, oil, biophysical […]
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism During Nate Hagens’ #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but more stochastic energy types. Ed. note: The […]
Art Berman: Like It Or Not, The Future Remains All About Oil
Vladimir Yudin | Dreamstime.com iTunes | Google Play | Download | Report Problem Art Berman: Like It Or Not, The Future Remains All About Oil And competition for it is heating up Art Berman, 40-year veteran in the petroleum production industry and respected geological consultant, returns to the podcast this week to talk about oil. […]
10 Years Automatic Earth
10 Years Automatic Earth Winslow Homer Mending the nets 1881 Yes, it’s 10 years ago today, on January 22 2008, that Nicole Foss and I published our first article on the Automatic Earth (the first few years on Blogger). And, well, obviously, a lot has happened in those 10 years. For ourselves, we went from […]
Gail Tverberg: The Coming Energy Depression
Gail Tverberg: The Coming Energy Depression The math is straightforward, but cruel As most PeakProsperity.com readers know, we fully agree with the statement: Energy is THE master resource. Without it, nothing can get done. Energy analyst and professional actuary Gail Tverberg returns to the podcast this week to revisit the global energy outlook. And fair warning, Gail warns […]
If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn’t Worry You, You’re Not Paying Attention
If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn’t Worry You, You’re Not Paying Attention A key geopolitical axis is swiftly shifting While turbulent during the best of times, gigantic waves of change are now sweeping across the Middle East. The magnitude is such that the impact on the global price of oil, as well as world markets, […]
