Blogs

• Country At A Crossroads
• Inflation, High Taxation or Default
• Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism
• Rep. DeFazio: Fire 'Timmy' Geithner
• Gold's 'Money' Value is $4,000 to $11,000: Market Strategist
• Biden On The Bailout: Socialism For The Rich, Capitalism For The Poor
• Student Fee Hike Fuels Mass Protest At UCLA
• Housing Crisis Hits A Whole New Level
• Breaking Down Fannie Mae's Deed For Lease Program
• Judge Rules Gov't May Be Liable For Billions In Katrina Claims
• Food Banks Struggle Amid Record Demands
• Maine's New Wind Plant Goes Online
• Houston Launches Program For Electric Car-Charging Stations
• Clean Green Texas
• New Twist In Vertical Gardening: 'Edible Walls'

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• Geithner in the doghouse over AIG debacle
• Democrats want homeowners and workers to get money from TARP
• What They Really Believe
• Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for 'global collapse'
• The Gold Trifecta?
• The Coming Nuclear Crisis
• John Paulson Making Huge New Bet On Gold
• Wells Fargo To Buy Back $1.4 Billion In Securities To Settle Fraud Lawsuit
• Philadelphia Gives Homeowners A Way To Stay Put
• Memo To Buffett: Put Down The Pom-Poms And Tell The Truth About The Economy
• 5 Million 'Pink Slips' Sent To Congress
• Wall Street's Ego Bubble
• Should Goldman Sachs Be Forgiven?
• Consumers Losing Millions In Scams On Well Known E-Commerce Sites
• We Have Not Escaped Prospect Of Global Economic Collapse
• Stickups And Burglaries On The Rise - At The Office
• More Holiday Shoppers To Use Cash Only - No Credit Cards
• The One Thing Depleting Faster Than Oil Is The Credibility Of Those Measuring It
• California Sets Energy-Efficient Rules For TVs
• A Scramble To Prepare For Electric Car Charging Stations
• Small Farmers And Community Gardening
• Floods And Droughts: How Climate Change Is Impacting Africa

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• New York Personal Income Tax Collections Fell 21% Last Year
• Global junk bond default rate rises in October - S&P
• Life Insurers May Lose $22.6 Billion on Commercial Real Estate
• S&P cuts ratings on $17 bln worth of U.S. CLOs
• Silverdome sale price disappoints
• Pickens Predicts $100 crude in 2010, $300 by 2020
• Michael Panzner: Commercial Real Estate Is A "Tsunami Unfolding"
• Ski Homes Feel the Real Estate Chill
• China, U.S. eye pact to help troubled banks: sources
• IC and reserve currency An issue to moot
• National Debt Now Tops $12 Trillion (CBS News)
• California faces a projected deficit of $21 billion
• Utah's fictitious '4th Congressional District' gets $1.2 million in stimulus funding (ABC News)
• VA might have to cut $2.9 billion more by '12
• Senator: VT will face $88 million budget deficit
• Charleston Seeks Help With Pensions
• We Don’t Have Confidence in the U.S. Dollar Now
• San Francisco heads into $53 million deficit (Video)
• State college pre-paid tuition program deep in debt (South Carolina)

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• Stephen King: Gold prices are a dead giveaway
• Million Hit By 'Plague Worse Than Swine Flu'
• Gold At $5000 An Ounce?
• China Slams Fed's Low Interest Rates
• Amendment To Relax Banks' Accounting Standards
• France Urges Inquiry Into Financial Sector Competition Abuse
• America's Newest Land Baron- The FDIC
• The New Flipping: Short Sales
• How Government Created Today's Commercial Real Estate Catastrophe
• Hunger In America At 14 Year High
• Investors Strategize For Fed's Exit From MBS Market
• $10 Billion Evaporates
• Could Pop-Culture Mood Mirror Stock Market Swings?
• Stimulus Jobs "Created" In Congressional Districts That Don't Exist
• UK Minister Warns Bankers About New Rules On Bonuses
• French Bankers Say "Au Revoir" To Guaranteed Bonuses Effective Immediately
• New Swiss Bonus Rules Target Insurers And Big Banks
• UK Pension Fund Deficits Underestimated By £268 billion
• The Year America Didn't Sleep
• The Great Wallop: An End To Chimerica
• China Solar Company Opens First US Manufacturing Plant
• Turning The Wind Power Market On It's Axis
• Hope Floats On Eco-Celebrity's Recycled Plastic Boat

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• China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy
• How Does Your State Compare to California?
• Protesters Plan Huge Anti-Goldman Rally In Washington, DC
• Mauldin: If This Is Recovery...
• Greenspan Buying Gold Bars
• Gold Hits Record High Monday, Asian Shares Rise
• Rising Clout Gives China New Muscle At G2 Talks With US
• Economists See FED Raising Interest Rates Sept 2010
• Market Volatility Expected To Continue
• Wall Street: All Eyes On The Consumer
• Healthcare Debate Lawmakers' Statements Written By Biotech Company
• More US Job Hunters Looking For Work In Other Nations
• Protecting Grandpa From Investing Peril
• To The Bankers: Answer This Question
• Amid Public Uproar CALPERS To Weigh Tougher Disclosure Rules
• Will China's Consumers Save The World Economy?
• More Class Action Lawsuits Against Wall Street Firms
• Drug Makers Rush To Increase Prices Before Health Care Overhaul
• Japan Extra Stimulus Likely
• As Dollar Tumbles, America Is Up For Grabs
• Five Things The US Can Learn From China
• The Economic Cost Of Ugly Useless Christmas Gifts
• Financial Sense NewsHour
• Environmental Economics: How Much Is A Tree Worth?
• Expanding Islands Of Trash Afloat In The Ocean
• Black Carbon: An Overlooked Climate Factor

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• Home Builders Get A Gift
• Bob Janjuah: the Great Bear of Scotland
• Trading Places With The Dollar
• Bubble Fears Surface At APEC Gathering
• Chicago Fed's Evans: Accomodative Policy Likely Beyond 2010
• FED May Cause Next Crisis, Hong Kong’s Tsang Suggests
• Japan Faces Fear Of New Downturn
• China Quashes Talk Of Letting Yuan Strengthen
• Add 3 Million Jobs A Year Starting Now
• The Prospect Of Pay Cuts As The New Normal
• Changes In Mortgage Lending Coming In 2010
• Commercial Real Estate Woes Are Deepening
• Food Fight
• What Saved Bear Stearns' Managers From Jail?
• Who Will Hold Goldman Accountable?
• French Bank Robber Becomes National Antihero
• China: A Superpower Stirs
• Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space As New Energy Source
• Can Alternative Energy Save The Economy And The Environment?
• “Smart Appliances” On Their Way To American Households
• Wireless Protocols Vie For Smart Grid
• An Eco-Friendly Exit
• Tuna In Peril As Catches Reach Triple The Limit

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• Who might run industrial policy
• Job Losses Mount, Enduring And Deep
• Budget Gaps Batter States As Revenues Plummet
• Home Purchase Loan Applications At Lowest Level Since 2000
• Ohio, NJ Pension Funds Win $400 Million Class Action Against Wall St Broker
• Derivatives Reform Bill Written By Someone 'Inside The Banks'
• Millions Of Dollars Raised By Police Property Seizures
• A Federal "Water Tax" For Florida?
• Worried About Losing Tax Revenue, Congress To Examine Airline Fees
• Rural US Towns Struggle As Employers Shut Down
• 22% Florida Mortgages Delinquent Or In Foreclosure
• Rich Buying Again While Middle Class Still Scrimping
• In Recession An Old West Crime Makes Big Comeback
• I Got Suckered By Cash For Clunkers
• Frugal Forever
• Trade Deficit Widens By Most In 10 Years
• Leaps Of Faith Holding Up The Stock Market
• China's End Run Around The US
• Roads Paved With Recycled Plastic

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• Gold Finger - A New Take On Operation Grand Slam With A Tungsten Twist
• The American Economy in One Chart 
• Online bank gets unfair advantage
• White House Aims To Cut Deficit With TARP Cash
• A Look At TARP One Year Later
• Monetizing The Housing Debt
• Fannie, Freddie Warn Of More Losses
• FHA Reserves May Go "Below Zero And Stay There"
• FDIC Orders Banks To Prepay $45 Billion
• October Deficit: $176 Billion, Monthly Interest: $22.8 Billion
• When Banks Use Capital Made Of Sand
• The Great Shrinking American Dollar
• How Private Equity Will Cause Credit Crisis II
• Nuclear Scars: A Sea Of Tainted Water Beneath Nevada Desert
• The Movie Chevron Doesn't Want You To See

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I had a number of requests to make this particular Insider post (for enrolled members) from Wednesday public.

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There was a huge amount of press and follow-up to the Guardian article of the leaks.  This theme is important enough to continue exploring.  Anybody who has seen the Crash Course does not need any more information about Peak Oil itself.

Instead, I am most fixated on when a tipping point in global awareness about Peak Oil might occur.  That's why this revelation and all the press it has been getting has been extremely interesting to me.

The first article helps to provide some more context and backing for the 'leaks,' which turn out not to have been very original leaks, since others were told this same information as early as 2007.  read more »

• Governments Blowing a New Bubble?
• Ultimate Conditions For Recovery
• Peak Gold Could Be A Lot Of Hype, But Who Wants To Take That Chance?
• The Parable Of The Stone And The Balloon: What Happens When The Tether Breaks
• 10 States Face Looming Budget Disasters
• FED Faces Biggest Blow To Authority
• SEC Starting To Target High-Frequency Trading
• Senators Propose Bill To Apply Gambling Laws To Derivatives
• US May Wind Up In A 'Lost Decade' Like Japan
• Dollar's Trouble, Oil's Bubble
• Stimulus Job Boost "Wildly Exaggerated"
• Recession Sparks Global Shoplifting Spree
• Record Number Of Pets Being Abandoned
• The Greatest Trade Ever
• US Pressures IEA to Underplay Proximity of Peak Oil Shortages
• Two Beers With Steve Podcast - Peak Oil 
• Oil! - Discussion with Peter Maass and Ed Burtynsky
• The future of oil 
• Who Needs The Grid?
• Setting Sail Into Space-Propelled By Sunshine
• The Fight Over The Future Of Food
• Saving Seafood From Extinction

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