There is No Gas Shortage (Ed Wallace)

But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace

Business As Usual (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- Those of us who are watching the crisis of industrial society arrive on schedule take our omens where we find them, and one appeared yesterday morning in the unlikely form of an ...

Swaps Tied to Losses Became `Frankenstein's Monster' (Neil Unmack, Sarah Mulholland)

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The credit-default swap market has become a lesson in being careful what you wish for now that Wall Street has taken $245 billion of losses partly tied to such exotica.

Master Conservers (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- For those of us who have been watching the energy scene for the last few decades, there’s a certain wry amusement to be gained from the daily fare on the peak oil newsblogs. Onc ...

Net Energy and Jevons' Paradox (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- As last week’s Archdruid Report post suggested, a difficult paradox lies in wait for attempts to bail industrial society out of its peak oil predicament by bringing new energy s ...

Global Systemic Crisis -- End Of 2008: Pension Funds Go Off The Rails (LEAP/E2020)

(March 16, 2008) -- According to LEAP/E2020, by the end of 2008, a formidable debacle will affect pension funds all over the world, endangering the entire system of capital-based pensions. This finan ...

The Paradox of Production (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- One of the things that makes the challenge of peak oil so insidious, and so resistant to quick fixes, is the way in which many things that seem like ingredients of a solution ar ...

A Milestone In The Dust (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- Earlier this month, according to several peak oil bloggers, the world passed a milestone worth noting: the point at which oil, in constant dollars, became more expensive than ev ...

Step 9 of the Financial Meltdown (Nouriel Roubini)

In my February 5th piece on 12 Steps to a Financial Disaster I predicted - as Step 9 of the meltdown - that "one or two large and systemically important broker dealers" will "go belly up" and that ot ...

The Next Agriculture (John Michael Greer)

(Archruid Report) -- Archdruids take breaks from time to time, but the peak oil debate does not, and during my recent vacation a lively discussion sprang up on The Oil Drum about the future of agricu ...

In The Dark With Both Hands (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- Archdruid Report -- Composting, the theme of the last two Archdruid Report posts, has turned out to be unusually timely as the current winter draws toward its end. The prospects ...