Richard Vodra, J.D., is the president of Worldview Two Planning of McLean, VA. He is retired from a 27-year career as a personal financial planner, and received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Capital Area chapter of the Financial Planning Association. He is an original member of the Nazrudin Project. He currently focuses on the linkages between financial planning, climate change, and resource constraints. He can be reached at [email protected].
Are There Limits to Economic Growth?
We get a startling overview of a self-directing complex system integrating economics and the physical world in Carey King’s recent book: The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy.
September 20, 2021
What Oil’s Troubles Mean to the Rest of Us
To the extent that stock prices reflect expectations of future value, investors don’t like the prospects for oil, and oil’s demise signals muted prospects for economic growth.
December 3, 2020
The Cost of Cheap Oil
The world price of oil – Brent Crude – fell below $84 per barrel on October 15. What is going on? Why does the price of oil matter to financial advisors? What might these fluctuations mean to the price and supply of oil for the rest of the decade?
October 28, 2014
Oil Abundance? Not So Fast- A Risk Checklist
Understanding how we use oil and where it comes from provides many reasons why Americans should be worried about the future of oil supplies.
July 21, 2014
Oil Abundance? Not So Fast – Drilling holes in the energy boom story
The story of America’s new energy abundance has been accepted uncritically by too many people.
July 14, 2014
Commentary: Looking Back at Peak Oil
Peak Oil – the maximum sustainable rate of global oil production – happened in 2012. That’s one of the main conclusions of a new report, Fossil and Nuclear Fuels – The Supply Outlook, released in March 2013 by the Energy Watch Group (EWG). This event will have profound long-term implications for how advisors should manage clients’ portfolios, and how clients should plan their future expenses.
May 6, 2013