Happy Bastille Day: Some Musings on Recent Events in Sri Lanka
Reflections on Bastille Day 2022: Last Saturday, Sri Lankans stormed their presidential palace, causing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to the Maldives.
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Pursuing Its National Interest in the New Multipolar World: India to Boost Sakhalin-1 Oil Output
Sakhalin-1 opportunity: Indian firms to step in and replace departing U.S. and Japanese companies.
Read more...The G7 Is Still Pushing Its Nutty Russia Oil Price Cap Idea
A new effort to punch Russia in the nose look as likely to backfire as earlier attempts, charitably assuming the scheme gets off the ground.
Read more...Fossil Fuel Interests Are Behind Canada’s Blue Hydrogen Push
Fossil fuel producing Canada is promoting the blue hydrogen con.
Read more...The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?
It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.
Read more...An Ode in Praise of the Wood Stove
Home heating in general, and wood stoves in particular. They’re great!
Read more...Michael Hudson: A Depression Is Coming
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and warns a “long depression” is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.
Read more...Drax Eyeing California as Site of New Biomass Carbon Capture Plant
UK company Drax is pitching a huge project, and seeking huge subsidies. for an unproven biomass technology.
Read more...Oil Markets Could Face A Doomsday Scenario This Week
How will oil markets react if they get confirmation that OPEC+ has no spare production capacity?
Read more...“G7 Aims to Hurt Russia with Price Cap on Oil Exports”
If this harebrained Russia oil price cap scheme gets off the ground, it’s likely to be yet another Western economic own goal.
Read more...“Why the Ukraine Crisis Will Make Little Difference to Dollar Supremacy”
Why the depth of the U.S. securities market will extend dollar hegemony beyond what would seem to be its natural sell-by date.
Read more...How Energy-Efficiency Upgrades Can Improve Your Health
An energy upgrade to your house will often produce other bennies!
Read more...The Mining Industry Is Replicating the Oil Sector Crisis
The push for green new energy faces a big hurdle via sharply rising prices of key inputs, due to years of underinvestment in mining.
Read more...Michael Hudson Talks About Almost Everything with Jonathan Brown
Another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: Ukraine Is a Diplomacy No-Go Zone
If this is what Western “realism” about Ukraine looks like, our goose is cooked.
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