Is Today’s Energy Shortage Worse Than The 1970s Oil Crisis?
The energy outlook, particularly for Europe, is not very cheery.
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A Sobering View of High Fuel Prices, Green Energy, and Biden’s Plans to Help Europ
An assessment of current economic conditions, including rising prices, how long the pain might last, and possible paths forward.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Dollar Devours the Euro
Michael Hudson argues that the euro and European economic independence are intended US targets for the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Global Supply Chain Risk and Resilience
Are experts whistling in the dark about the coming odds of fundamental restructuring of many supply chains?
Read more...ExxonMobil Announces $10 Billion Oil Investment the Same Day IPCC Signals End for Fossil Fuels
uelle surprise! Big oil is not giving up.
Read more...Climate Science and Financial Risk: Forging a Path to More Climate-Resilient Businesses
Is the search for better valuations of climate risks to help businesses reducing global emissions an exercise in self-delusion?
Read more...No One Will Win in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Gail Tverberg argues that the war in Ukraine does not get Russia or other energy producers out of their scarity bind.
Read more...Putin-Scholz Phone Call on “Gas for Roubles” Mechanism Conforms to Our Assessment; Disputes Over Russia Force Reduction Around Kiev; West Pressure on China, India Continues
What Russia is up to and what if anything the West can do continues to dominate the media. Too bad we know so little about what is afoot
Read more...The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis
You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.
Read more...Ukraine Updates and More Discussion of the Russia “Gas for Roubles” Countersanction
Gazprom is scheduled to announce what its roubls-for-gas payments stipulations are, even though most Western countries said no, sight unseen.
Read more...“Dollar Hegemony Ended Last Wednesday”: Michael Hudson Interviewed by Margaret Flowers on Clearing the Fog
Michael Hudson continues to discuss how Western sanctions are undermining the central role of the dollar in US economic dominance.
Read more...Under the Sea, a Hidden Climate Variable: Thawing Permafrost
Carefully mapping the changing topology of the Arctic Ocean floor, scientists are racing to study submarine permafrost.
Read more...War or Peace, Barbarism or Hope: War Threatens World with Stagflation
A short hisory of stagflation and why it’s a pressing risk now.
Read more...NATO-Russia Proxy War – Revealing Signs of a Fading America: Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson continues his political and financial analysis of the war in Ukraine.
Read more...US Natural Gas Production and LNG Exports Amid Urgent Demand for LNG from Europe
Europe will compete with the biggest buyers of US LNG: South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil. But Mexico bought more than all four combined.
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