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Fri 3 Aug 2007

The crash that could come

Posted by diderot under Peakist , Economics
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By Robert Kuttner  |  July 30, 2007
Boston Globe

HISTORICALLY, October has been the month for big financial busts. But this year, October could come early.

Investors and ordinary citizens have good reason to worry about a perfect economic storm: a deepening loss of confidence in the dollar leading to higher interest rates; the higher rates bringing a crashing end to a hedge-fund, private equity, and merger binge that has depended heavily on cheap borrowed money; the boom in bait-and-switch mortgages ending in a morning-after of rising defaults and sinking housing values; inflationary pressures in food, oil, and other commodities leading to still higher interest rates — all unsettling stock and credit markets and putting a new squeeze on consumers borrowed to the hilt. (more…)

Mon 9 Jul 2007

World will face oil crunch ‘in five years’

Posted by diderot under Peakist , Peak Oil , Economics
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Thu 5 Jul 2007

The petrodollar puzzle

Posted by diderot under Peakist , Economics
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Mon 8 Jan 2007

Russian-Belarus oil row rattles EU nerves

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Geopolitics , Economics , Russia
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Wed 6 Dec 2006

Global campaign against a civilization based on oil

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Peak Oil , Geopolitics , Economics , Environment , Climate Change
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Wed 18 Oct 2006

Falling Petrol Prices and the Peak Oil Plateau

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Peak Oil , Economics
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Tue 17 Oct 2006

Energy Democracy and Oil Price

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Energy , Economics , Climate Change
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Fri 13 Oct 2006

Shell (and Friends of the Earth) Warns of Climate Catastrophe

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Economics , Climate Change
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Fri 13 Oct 2006

Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Economics , Russia , Gazprom
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Sun 24 Sep 2006

Robert Hirsch: Peak Oil in Five to Ten Years

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Peak Oil , Economics
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Sun 3 Sep 2006

Ambassador warned of Azerbaijan oil pipeline risk

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Economics
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Fri 11 Aug 2006

Will Cuban oil break U.S. embargo?

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Geopolitics , Economics , New Oil , Cuba
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Wed 12 Jul 2006

Race to the world’s energy hotspots

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Geopolitics , Economics , China , Nigeria , New Oil , Russia , Saudi Arabia
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Wed 28 Jun 2006

The Illusion of Growth

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Economics , Global Warming
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Thu 15 Jun 2006

Oil and Empire - the backstory to the invasion of Iraq

Posted by Dan Welch under Peakist , Energy , Geopolitics , Economics , Iran , Iraq , Saudi Arabia
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