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Doesn't the credit freeze mean that banks aren't lending to each other because they don't trust each other. Why then should any of us trust them?

I just wish I had much of anything to withdraw! Mos ...

I have to concur with the last few posts.

In response to my statement that "climate models have shown themselves to be incredibly unreliable"

mini wrote: "Like it or not, it's the reality of cl ...

Hmmm, martial law and army occupation would be more like the mine collapsing than a canary dying.

I still am not sure that urban is going to be worse than rural, but this will depend on which urban ...

William wrote "What a conundrum eh? Increased militarization for the purpose of securing ever more scarce resources, creating yet more demand for said resources..."

That is one of the classic above ...

Thanks for keeping track of this, hw.

Dante, you mentioned that the mortgage bailout also includes derivatives. This seems like the huge black whole that could really swallow not just the US but th ...

Thanks for the insights, guys. Long term, probably withing 5-10 years, I think PO is going to really kick in and grindingly crush the economy, but the current collapse could be getting ahead of the lo ...

Thanks again for the insights. Quantification is indeed difficult, as is precise timing.

And thanks for the reminder of the bigger picture, VMH. We are indeed running on borrowed ancient sunlight.

I'm going to make one last point, then I'm not feeding this troll any further.

There was more total ice mass lost this year than last, just not more ice coverage. This has been discussed here at le ...

Again, thanks for the hands-on perspective.

The EROEI issue was more on the level of oil extraction as a whole. When that goes to one or less, I believe oil will still be drilled, but the nature of ...

So when will this turn around, at least for a while?

I have been almost completely in cash for a while, but I'm starting to wonder if it's getting close to time to start getting back into some stoc ...

Is Iceland's going basically bankrupt going to be the first in a series of total collapses of countries?

What will be the long-term consequences of their attaching themselves to Russia?

Yes, much appreciated, roc.

It strikes me that, like most extraction industries, oil extraction works on boom and bust cycles and we're due about now for another boom (or at least a boomlet?).

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"myth of climate models "reliability" "

Again, yes, the models have shown themselves to be incredibly unreliable.

They all said that the Arctic was not going to melt for fifty to hundreds of ye ...

Hey joel, I hope you aren't counting on dividends from shaky, obscure companies like The Bank of America. Rolling Eyes

They just cut them by 50% after closing. I'll see if I can find the linky.

"most americans are still fairly clueless..."

Understatement of the week?