More Like A Depression Every Day
We have improved the prospects we won’t be consigned to a long period of subpar growth [but] it’s going to be a slower than typical recovery, and right now, downside risks continue to outweigh
About the Author
Name: Dave Cohen
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Bio: Dave Cohen is a weekly columnist for ASPO-USA. His commentaries cover a wide variety of subjects, including the global economy, the oil markets, fossil fuel resources as they pertain to economic growth, and global warming. Dave was writing search engine software before he gave up on the software industry in 2005. Dave has a M.A. in theoretical linguistics and was working on a Ph.D. before leaving The University of Texas in 1985 to do research in Artificial Intelligence.
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2009 — A Year We Will Live To Regret
It was as if the oil price shock had never happened. Those charged with guiding energy policy decided to solve our oil problem through long-term science projects that may never pay off. The people Obama appointed to guide economic policy were obviously there to serve Wall Street’s interests, so bailed out Too-Big-To-Fail bankers were still running the show
Not In the Labor Force
There are lies, damn lies - and statistics. —attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, made popular by Mark Twain Humankind can not bear too much reality —T.S.
Paul Krugman’s Free Lunch Theory
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue —Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury - September, 1929 The worst is over
Some Holiday Reading
Happy Thanksgiving. I thought you might enjoy some light reading for the holiday. Here are some things that caught my eye in the last week or so. Item
Staking Out the Middle Ground
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions —Friedrich Nietzsche Last week I took the view that The
The Oil Situation Is Really Bad
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever
Decline of the Empire — Now What?
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts —Shakespeare The
Big Crash Coming?
I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite
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The Future of the Dollar
It is hard to imagine a happy future for the dollar, and I was going to say that before Robert Fisk published his The
