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I fear I grasp the concepts far better than you do. Nothing that you wrote disproves anything I have written. Food, fuel and fertilizer prices are all inter-related, and therefore are all subject to ...

Bruce I agree 100% with your reservations about large scale adoption of cellulosic production on marginal land and the potential problems that may cause. As pstarr points out it is the scale needed. ...

In order to switch from one kind of money to another you first need an alternative. The US dollar or euro could serve that purpose. But in Zimbabwe those are not legal tender. Until inflation is st ...

It took a Great Depression and two World Wars before we learned some fundamental lessons. Now we have been unlearning those lessons and may need to be taught them once again. The lesson may be more ...

Byron is a little confused. He is talking about die-off, but in the same breath concluding that not only will mothers be breast feeding in 100 years from now, but that society will still exist in suc ...

Once again I will post links to the following charts as the images are too big and they distort the screen. Click on Full Size for best results. Thanks.

EUR/JPY looks toppish at 170. I c ...

One day not so long ago I was reading Bloomberg magazine and there was an article on some of the most successful hedge fund managers. Some real pioneers before many of these me-too funds came along r ...

No, I do not believe realistically that western Europe has any designs on Russian territory. Not in my lifetime. But events may change.

However, on that note, although the ownership of a partic ...

Yes, but traditionally China hasn't "conquered" other places,
Except for Tibet.

I have said for years that I expect China to eventually annex N. Korea and Myanmar under the guise of humanitari ...

The S&P500 is putting in a nice technical reversal at 1200 this week. Should we close above 1270 this week it would be a positive signal for a rebound. The bottom? As I said before, I do not th ...

Cube, your example is not besides the point, but it misses the point that wealth transfers from oil consuming nations to oil producing nations are still a wealth transfer.

What you're talking abo ...

cube wrote:
When I say my "vision of a post PO world." that does not necessarily mean a desire but simply what my crystal ball tells me.
For example I often say, "I think over half the world wil ...

I have problem with the state buying cheap assets in a crisis and then making a profit for the taxpayer by selling them off more expensively later. So long as it is done in a transparent way with no ...

Again, thank you. I keep mixing economy with finance. That sums up my idea, with evidence data to boot. Perfect.

You said a very interesting thing in an earlier post: that we have placed petrol ...

Thanks yesplease! ; - ))

Political interference in the market trumps economics in the short-run.

The IEA estimates that three-fifths of the doubling in the price of crude in the past year ...