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Are Gold and US Treasuries in Conflict?
As a number of observers watch both Gold and Treasuries go higher in price, they’re concluding that one of these asset classes must be wrong. I can certainly understand that view. Over the past year, I...
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Break Point
California has over 36 million residents. But 60% of the state’s population, over 22 million people, live in the five big counties of the south: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and San...
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I was surprised to see the following headline in today’s Wall Street Journal: Oil Price Rise Poses Little Threat, Yet, To Economic Recovery. The piece was stitched together with many quotes from...
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Gasoline and Unemployment in Southern California
The recent release of State and Metro unemployment data from BLS comes at a time when oil prices have just made a new, 52 week high, and it seems appropriate to consider the these developments...
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Coal and Treasuries
It was the best of times for the developing world, and the worst of times for the developed world. In the developing world, they built savings. In the developed world, they groaned and sagged under the...
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Used Rainbows
There’s a picture floating around on the internet but I’m not going to show it to you. It depicts several rows of half-buried automobile tires, off in a distance behind a chain-link fence. A dusting of...
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Energy Supply and the Individual States
The February issue of Gregor.us Monthly, Energy Supply and the Individual States, has now been published. The 22 page report is a more data-filled version of the thematic treatment I’ve given to this...
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Paris Over Amherst: Food, Energy, and Credit
The latest issue of Gregor.us Monthly, Food, Energy, The Spatial Dimension, and Credit uses the present macroeconomic juncture to pose questions about the coming fate of our Labor, Agriculture, and...
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The Risk of ‘Hot’ Inflation
Dear Readers: I’m currently writing a long-form post twice a month now for Chris Martenson’s excellent website. Accordingly, I’ll be publishing the first (and free) part of these essays here at...
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The Inflation’s In The Poverty
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) produces excellent research. In March of 2010 I discussed their report, Energy Use in the US Food System, which noted that the energy-cost intensity...
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