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FBaggins

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6. Oh no... you haven't learned that lesson yet?

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 12:48 PM

Jan 2015

Malthusian lessons 101

Rule #1 - Don't ever make predictions over such a short term. You'll get clobbered 90%+ of the time. The date of reckoning on whatever the prediction is must be far enough into the future that you won't be around to be called on it.

chance to work its way into national economies around the world.

The vast bulk of national economies are consumers of energy... not sellers. Am I supposed to get worried about the economic impact of government employees in Venezuela losing their jobs?

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Continental Resources cuts nearly $2 billion from capital expenditures budget for 2015 [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2014 OP

This is why lower gasoline prices are not a universal boon. GliderGuider Dec 2014 #1

You're reading your assumptions into what is reported FBaggins Dec 2014 #3

Talk to me at the end of March... GliderGuider Dec 2014 #5

Oh no... you haven't learned that lesson yet? FBaggins Jan 2015 #6

"Rule #1 - Don't ever make predictions over such a short term." GliderGuider Jan 2015 #7

I gave you an extra three months FBaggins Jul 2015 #8

I guess I'm impatient for the collapse to start biting down hard. GliderGuider Jul 2015 #9

You're actually eager for things to fall apart? FBaggins Jul 2015 #10

Yep. GliderGuider Jul 2015 #11

Not wishing to butt in but I'm certainly eager for things to fall apart ... Nihil Jul 2015 #12

Ah... but GG's notion of "fall apart" involves billions dying FBaggins Jul 2015 #13

Once the dying starts it will sweep all into the circle of its scythe GliderGuider Jul 2015 #14

Here's a great comment from The Automatic Earth GliderGuider Jul 2015 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author GliderGuider Dec 2014 #4

Cry me a river 4dsc Dec 2014 #2