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Substitutions …

  Figure 1: Brent crude weekly futures chart by TFC Charts (click on for big): Fuel prices decline because there is less credit available to support the price, yadda, yadda, yadda … Estimable Gregor Macdonald had an interesting bit the … Continue reading

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The Brutal Economics of Less …

George Cruikshank ‘Please sir, I want some more’ From Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’   Look across the water to the Continent(s) and see the collision between the obsolete ‘Politics of More’ and the natural economics of less. Remember, the idea … Continue reading

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Denial …

Denial is everywhere, we refuse to go to rehab and kick the waste habit:     Life imitates art: we attempt to live up to candy-colored assumptions about ourselves, even as these are only images projected onto screens. The Amy … Continue reading

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Hiding in Plain Sight …

Hiding in plain sight: It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford   Q: How … Continue reading

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Planet Deadbeat

Figure 1: Unsupportable cost of fuel and $125-per-barrel is the bridge too far. Chart by TFC Charts. Prices for crude oil are both too high and too low at the same time. High prices are eroding demand while too-low prices … Continue reading

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