A Global Oil Shortage Is Inevitable
Why pricey oil isn’t going away any time soon.
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Net Zero, Insulation, Boilers, and English Dampness, or Symbol Manipulators Versus Existing Conditions
The English gas boiler as a microcosm of Anglosphere elites’ inability to come up with realistic carbon reduction schemes.
Read more...Expectations Data Indicate the US Is Entering Recession About Now
Consumers are getting so rattled that they have set off recession warning lights.
Read more...Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation: How Bad Will the Disruption Become?
How the Biden Adminstration is if anything making the current supply chain mess worse.
Read more...Spike in Energy Prices Suggests That Sharp Changes Are Ahead
Gail Tverberg expands her focus beyond energy to provide an analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy
Read more...Jim Chanos: China’s “Leveraged Prosperity” Model is Doomed. And That’s Not the Worst
Famed short-seller Jim Chanos is more concerned with political fallout from China’s Evergrande than economic/financial woes.
Read more...The John Deere Strike: Organized Labor’s Turning Point?
Will the Deere strike become a watershed event, a PATCO in reverse?
Read more...Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking
Workers are getting uppity. What is surprising is that it took so long.
Read more...The Supply Chain Crisis: How We Got Here
On some of the key management practices and fads that produced dependence on extended and revealed-to-be-fragile supply chains.
Read more...Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
Read more...The Neverending Brexit: Flailing Johnson Set to Try to Renege on Commitment to Respect Good Friday Agreement
Boris Johnson is expected to eyepoke the EU by reneging on the Norhtern Ireland protocol, presumbly to distract from domestic shortages.
Read more...Why America Needs a National Program of Paid Sick and Family Leave
Family leave is productive as well as humane, but American management has been keen to keep its boot on workers’ necks.
Read more...Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage
Raising minimum wages is good for workers and (surprise!) company operations! Too bad those whiny managers worry they will skim less.
Read more...Why Does Congress Fight Over Childcare But Not F-35s?
Details on why Congress is addicted handing out military pork as opposed to spending money on citizens’ needs.
Read more...Just Keeps Getting Worse: Services Trade Surplus, the American Dream-Not-Come-True, Worst in 10 Years. Imports Worst Ever. Trade Deficit Worst Ever
Repeat after me: trade deficits = exporting jobs. The latest results confirm how crappy US policies are.
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