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12 02, 2020

The Fossil Fuel Industry Will Probably Collapse This Decade

By |2021-01-15T19:36:28+00:00February 12th, 2020|Economics, Investing|0 Comments

It's 2020! We're officially living in the future! And if retro sci-fi stories are any guide, that means abundant, clean, cheap energy for everyone. In 1954 the chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission declared to great fanfare that the nuclear age would bring with it "electrical energy too cheap [...]

26 04, 2017

A Permanent Bear Market in Fossil Fuels?

By |2020-04-27T17:19:30+00:00April 26th, 2017|Economics, Investing|Comments Off on A Permanent Bear Market in Fossil Fuels?

In my last post I wrote about how the financial industry, led in particular by asset manager BlackRock, may begin putting pressure on the private sector to reduce carbon emissions and otherwise adopt more environmentally friendly practices, for entirely self-interested, profit-motivated reasons. Since then, I've been thinking a lot about [...]

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