{"id":69667,"date":"2026-05-20T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69667"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:49:31","slug":"the-bulletin-may-13-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69667","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: May 13-19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: May 13-19, 2026<\/span><\/h1>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CLICK HERE<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out <\/b>this overview<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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US Unleashes Another Wave Of Crude From Strategic Reserve As Gas Prices Soar | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Price Isn\u2019t Right: Fundamentals Don\u2019t Support $100 Oil | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

50+ years of World Models: Collapse, Collapse, Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Uninvestable Singularity: Why the Elite Lifeboats are Thermodynamic Tombs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Producer Price Inflation Explodes as the Services PPI Blows Out on Top of the Energy Price Spike | Wolf Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Wheat Crop Forecast To Hit Half-Century Low As Drought Hits Breadbasket | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived \u2013 Now What?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Kagan and Boot: The Guilty Are Writing the Verdict \u2013 Global geopolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Slightly Up From Slavery – Doug Casey’s International Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s Dependence on U.S. LNG Is Set to Surge | OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Change Your Culture to Change the World – by Matt Orsagh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sink the Ships: The Only Way to Stop Deep Sea Mining<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Curse of the Sincere Believer – by Steve Keen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Canada’s Pay-to-Play Press Pass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Do You Know The Bilderberg Group? – Global GeoPolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Empire\u2019s Mask Is Slipping \u2013 Global geopolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

OPEC Fractures, the Draft Returns, and the Age of Consequences Begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q1 2026 | Wolf Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s Not About “Blood Libel”, It’s About Narrative Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Energy Shock, Oil Markets and the New Commodity Cycle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hormuz Hangover: Bend Not Break?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Gasoline Inventories Plunging On Surging Exports, Resilient Demand | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science in Trouble: Plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Silly Theatre of Peer Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Collapse Chronicle 05.16.26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sensemaking: Part 7 – The New Unhinged<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Humanity is about to conduct a dangerous experiment on the planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The crunch is coming – by Catherine Knight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re At Tank Bottom by the Fourth of July<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Second Shock Coming Out Of Hormuz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Realistic Energy Transition Is To Get Better At Using Less Of It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Energy Density of Fuels: a Critical Concept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cut the fuel, cut the future – by No1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial–and Rage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the Global Economy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

China as the first predictive state – by Michel Bauwens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Changing the Money System. Changing Everything<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Canada Rethinks Selling Its Crown Jewel Pipeline | OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Oil Rig Count Jumps amid Rising Crude Prices | OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Shortages Are Coming – by Matt Smith @ Crisis Investing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Order out of Chaos. The reasons for a war – by Ismaele<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Origins of the Roman Empire… the Mystery Cults Migrate to a New Host<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oceans Face Triple Threat: Pollution, Warming Earth, and Biodiversity Loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Face-Ripping Inflation Is Coming Your Way!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Metabolic Theory of Civilisation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On spiritual questions – by Elisabeth Robson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Recession Watch: Inflation Spikes, Bonds Rebel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hormuz \u2018dry run\u2019: life without oil and petrochemicals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Great Awakening – by Ernesto Van Peborgh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When \u201cnothing to worry about\u201d starts to look a bit too confident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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PLEASE NOTE: This list is just \u2018of interest\u2019. It does not mean I personally endorse or agree with the content of a listed article; in fact, some I certainly do not agree with. But these are all part and parcel of stories told by our species about our world. Some are published by the authors for \u2018educational\u2019 and\/or \u2018informational\u2019 purposes, some are for far more nefarious \u2018narrative management\u2019 ones\u2013you, the reader, can decide which is which. Keep in mind a relevant passage from a Bill Rees <\/span>paper<\/span><\/a>: \u201c<\/span>We begin with a reminder that humans are storytellers by nature. We socially construct complex sets of facts, beliefs, and values that guide how we operate in the world. Indeed, humans act out of their socially constructed narratives as if they were real. All political ideologies, religious doctrines, economic paradigms, cultural narratives\u2014even scientific theories\u2014are socially constructed \u201cstories\u201d that may or may not accurately reflect any aspect of reality they purport to represent. Once a particular construct has taken hold, its adherents are likely to treat it more seriously than opposing evidence from an alternate conceptual framework.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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