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The End of the Bubble Finance Era
The End of the Bubble Finance Era We are nearing a crucial inflection point in the worldwide bubble finance cycle that has been underway for more than two decades. To wit, the world’s central banks have finally run out of dry powder. They will be unable to stop the credit implosion which must inexorably follow […]
Economic growth: How it works; how it fails; why wealth disparity occurs
Economic growth: How it works; how it fails; why wealth disparity occurs Economists have put together models of how an economy works, but these models were developed years ago, when the world economy was far from limits. These models may have been reasonably adequate when they were developed, but there is increasing evidence that they don’t […]
Why “supply and demand” doesn’t work for oil
Why “supply and demand” doesn’t work for oil The traditional understanding of supply and demand works in some limited cases–will a manufacturer make red dresses or blue dresses? The manufacturer’s choice doesn’t make much difference to the economic system as a whole, except perhaps in the amount of red and blue dye sold, so it is […]
The Federal Reserve, Interest Rates and Triffin’s Paradox
The Federal Reserve, Interest Rates and Triffin’s Paradox There is no way Fed policy can be win-win-win for all participants. One result of the global dependence on central bank interventions is a unhealthy fixation on the slightest changes in those interventions, oops I meant policies. Since the slightest pull-back in central bank inflation of asset bubbles […]
Is The Oil And Gas Fire Sale About To Start?
Is The Oil And Gas Fire Sale About To Start? Much has been written about the mounting pile of debt for U.S. oil companies (not to mention the well-known Brazilian oil giant). Not that long ago, many oil and gas companies secured at least a part of their revenue by hedging contracts. Bloomberg already reported in June that many of […]
Too Many Wildcards For Oil Markets To Settle Yet
Too Many Wildcards For Oil Markets To Settle Yet Could the price of oil be a value such that the current quantity produced exceeds the current quantity consumed? The answer is yes, and indeed that has been the case for much of the past year. Suppose, for illustration, that even at a price of $40, […]
Low Interest Rates Cannot Save a House of Cards
Low Interest Rates Cannot Save a House of Cards When is the price of some marketable good or service at or near zero? When either the supply of it is so plentiful that virtually any demand, no matter how great, can be satisfied. Or when no matter how large or small the supply of it […]
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards (part 1): PeakOil, Meet Fractional-Reserve Banking
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards (part 1): PeakOil, Meet Fractional-Reserve Banking (image by Viktor Hertz) If the ongoing crash of oil prices over the past year – and now the stock market crashes of last week – have continuously taught me one thing, that would be that I’ve got very little clue regarding the economic implications ofpeak oil. […]
Saudis Claim Conspiracy Theorists, Not OPEC, To Blame For Oil Price Crash
Saudis Claim Conspiracy Theorists, Not OPEC, To Blame For Oil Price Crash A top Saudi official said on March 15 that Thomas Friedman and other conspiracy theorists are to blame for the crash in oil prices. Rather than an oversupply and weak demand causing an imbalance in global oil markets, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Muhanna, the advisor […]
