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“Saudi Arabia isn’t just running out of oil — it’s running out of water. So is the whole region.” So explains Jeff Rubin in his latest book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller (2009) (read my review of Jeff Rubin here).
If you thought it was bad enough to see the [...]
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Are you liking the new frugality trend? Get used to it. Frugality is “in” and here to stay – but not because the U.S. housing and credit markets collapsed and 30% of everyone’s savings have disappeared. According to Jeff Rubin, ex-senior economist at CIBC World Markets, the growing scarcity in the world’s fossil fuels supply [...]
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NB: As you can imagine from watching a film like Food, Inc., it can be hard to separate the emotion and just report “calmly” on the plain facts presented by the film. Originally I wrote this the same day I saw it, but I’ve since gone back and edited it to try to tone down [...]
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With all the new recent serious talk again of a Great Depression (or just a “Depression”) now that confidence seems to have totally dissipated in regard to the economic stimulus projects (not that they won’t work – but just that they might not work soon enough, and the ensuing debt they create will have its [...]
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