Can an Economy Learn to Live with Increasingly High Oil Prices?

¿Puede una economía aprender a vivir con los precios del petróleo cada vez más altos? [EN] #peakoil

Totally agree. One other thing, all those fraudulent financial trends you identified were done to keep the system going a bit longer. If ZIRP, QE, etc. hadn't been instituted then the financial system would have collapsed well over a decade ago. In fact, these manipulations have been going on for a loonngg time. Suppression of gold and silver has been going on for well over half a century now. Suppression of oil prices is now firmly entrenched. Suppression of gold, silver, and oil is the same thing as inflating US dollars, which is what the center of the world's financial system revolves around. This is simply the modern version of what an empire does to keep itself going. It's no different than the Roman Empire or any of the other empires you learned about in history. We are servants serving that empire. The US dollar is the center of that. The trade deficit enables goods...

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