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5 Companies Revolutionizing The Wireless Game
If you thought you missed the boat on lucrative wireless investment—think again. The seeds of wireless communications that have minted billionaires in the U.S. are now budding in the explosively…
Could Low Oil Prices Cause A Global Recession?
The global economy is slipping into recession. The evidence is showing up in all the usual ways: slowing output growth, slumping purchasing-manager indexes, widening credit spreads, declining corporate earnings, falling…
The Clock Is Ticking On The U.S. Dollar As World’s Reserve Currency
The View From Hubbert’s PeakIn 1971, the American President put an end to a 2,500 year trend; the Wall Street Journal called it “Nixon’s Worst Weekend.” Considering the…
More To Ruble’s Collapse Than Meets The Eye
The ruble is dying, and fast. In what is now being dubbed ‘Black Monday’ the ruble’s value to the dollar dropped nearly 15 percent. Tuesday brought no respite and the…
How Diminishing Returns and EROI can Lead to Economic Collapse
What do diminishing returns, energy return on energy invested (EROI or EROEI), and collapse have to do with each other? Let me start by explaining the connection between Diminishing…
Low Gasoline Prices Bring US Inflation Down to Four Year Low
A big drop in gasoline prices brought the US inflation rate for October, as measured by year-on-year change in the consumer price index, to just 0.95 percent, its lowest level…
Why Rising Energy Costs are Responsible for Widespread Economic Recession
How does the world reach limits? This is a question that few dare to examine. My analysis suggests that these limits will come in a very different way than most…
World Bank: Russian Energy Strength is Economic Weakness
The head of the World Bank in Russia said Wednesday he was alarmed by the slowdown in the Russian economy. The bank said the Russian economy was slow to emerge…
Economic Forecasting in a Time of Diminishing Oil Supplies
What will the world economy be like ten years from now? Or fifty years from now? Is it something that we can forecast by looking at the past, assuming that…
Clean Energy Damaging Europe’s Competitiveness
For years Europe has been at the forefront of the renewable energy revolution, promoting and establishing global rules in this sector. There are signs however that this trend might change.
