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On December 15, 2008, Peter Zeihan wrote “Falling Fortunes, Rising Hopes and the Price of Oil”. See it at:
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Mr. Zeihan’s article begins: Oil prices have now dipped — albeit only briefly — below US$40 a barrel, a precipitous plunge from their highs of more than US$147 a barrel in July. Just as high oil prices reworked the international economic order, low oil prices are now doing the same. Such a sudden onset of low prices impacts the international system just as severely as recent record highs.” Please see it at the link for the full article.
I am thrilled to be up and running with this blog. The US economy is shuddering to a trickle, the markets are continuing to fall, house values are moving lower still, and foreclosures and bankruptcies are skyrocketing. There are new and major layoffs announced each day. And, our government, including the Treasury, Federal Reserve and [...]