ODAC Newsletter – Nov 27
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Globalisation
Black Swan talking
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is angry
The REAL maverick: Present economy worse than Depression
Taleb on Black Swans
Prophet of boom and doom
Energy producers – Oct 28
Financial Storm Hits Gulf States
The rise (and fall?) of petro-states
As Dubai skyscrapers keep rising, buyers and developers eye world’s financial woes
Peak Oil Review – Oct 27
A digest of peak oil news including:
– A spreading crisis
– OPEC
– Investment in new production
– Briefs
Economics – Oct 23
A world in flux: crisis to agency
Guided by an invisible hand
Saving the Working Class with Green-Collar Jobs
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 17
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Peak oil & prices – Oct 10
James Taylor Prepares For Peak Oil, Fears Collapse Of Society
Oil has fallen to the lowest price in a year meaning respite for consumers as food prices are coming down
Finding Energy to Beat a Recession
United States & Canada – Oct 6
NYT’s Friedman discusses solutions to world’s climate, energy, and population problems (video & transcript)
Politics of drilling, financial bailout heading into elections (video & transcript)
Fukuyama: The Fall of America, Inc.
Ok, Now What?
Atlanta Q&A: Why gasoline supplies went south
Water – Sept 30
California took on energy crisis, now it faces water crisis
FLOW: The Film that Will Change the Way You Think About Water
The New Corporate Threat to Our Water Supplies
Bottled Water at Issue in Great Lakes
Peeling the Onion: What’s Behind the Financial Mess?
If you want a pat answer to what has caused the financial crisis that is reverberating around the world, and now threatening the derivatives market, we’ve got one. Nearly everyone – in the mainstream media and outside it, tells the same story – that the crisis was caused by the unravelling of the housing market, particularly the US housing market. And if you ask what’s behind that, well, we’re told there was a bubble. And if you ask what was behind the bursting of the bubble, well…;it is turtles all the way down.
I’m going to suggest that if you peel off the layers of the financial crisis, we’re going to find some pretty basic things…
Peak oil – Sept 26
Of pipelines and the future
Here comes $500 oil – Matt Simmons in Fortune Magazine
Will the price of oil put a brake on globalisation?
Geopolitics – Sept 18
U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals
China paper urges new currency order after “tsunami”
Low Crude Prices – Cold War Flashback?
Medvedev: Russia needs to mark its Arctic territory