Tag Archives: bonds

• Parks chief warns of 'massive cuts, huge layoffs' as soon as 2020 (Chicago)
• No more excuses. Fix Pa. pension funds | Editorial
• Who’s Going to Pay for LA’s Unsustainable Pension Plans?
• ECB Official Warns QE Exit Could Spell Trouble for Italy's Debt
• U.S. recession chances edge up, risk Fed delivers fewer hikes: Reuters poll
• BOJ's Kuroda rules out early end of negative rate policy (Japan)
• Unthinkable?
• Bitcoin-Rigging Criminal Probe Focused on Tie to Tether
• NY BitLicense Approval, Blockchain for Energy Commodities, CFTC Enforcement, Advertising Use Cases and More

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As we claim often here at PeakProsperity.com: Energy is everything.

Will our global society be able to transtiton off of its extreme dependence on fossil fuels? And if so, can we do so without too much pain?

Scott Tinker is the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, and founder of the non-profit Switch Energy Alliance, which is dedicated to helping humanity address these key questions.

Tinker remains confident a much better future energy-wise is possible; but will require a tremendous shift in behavoir, investment and technological innovation.

In his eyes, society can make the transition. But will it? That’s a lot less certain…

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• More California cops and firefighters are paying for their pensions. Is it too late?
• Reports: Growing number of $100,000-plus public pensions in Illinois cost taxpayers
• India considers IL&FS sale among options to end debt crunch
• Italy's debt costs rise further at auction
• Australians face $700b wealth wipe-out as debt levels rated riskiest in the world: Morgan Stanley
• Treasury Sees 2018 Borrowing Needs Surging to $1.34 Trillion
• UK budget doesn't alter view of high public debt: Moody's
• Whopping 62 percent of jobs don't support middle-class life after accounting for cost of living
• Debt Alarm Ringing
• Treasury Sees 2018 Borrowing Needs Surging to $1.34 Trillion

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• Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise
• A deadly storm is coming in Syria
• Report: Trump Admin Denying Passports to Citizens Along Border
• So Much for The Great California Bail Celebration
• Elections board takes less than a minute to reject proposal to close 7 of 9 polling places in majority-black county
• Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
• Attention, Shoppers: Kroger Says It Is Phasing Out Plastic Bags
• U.S. court orders Trump administration to enforce chemical safety rule

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• You Can Never Change Your Life Through Willpower. Here’s What Actually Works.
• Supreme Court won't hear Trump bid to end DACA program
• U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clash Over Mandatory Union Fees
• The gun debate in Congress: From concealed-carry to the assault weapons ban
• We May Soon Be Living In Alexa's World
• An influential group of doctors says all teens should get screened for depression — here are some of the questions they ask
• How much money do people need to be happy?
• Venezuelan Oil Production Could Further Collapse On New U.S. Sanctions

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• 1 in 5 Americans have more credit-card debt than savings
• Silver: 2018 and Beyond
• Four Ex-Deutsche Bank Traders Evade U.K. Euribor Case
• Me, rich? Here’s what Palo Altans think about themselves
• Venezuela's New Cryptocurrency: Just Another Form of Control Fraud
• What's Actually Behind Cape Town's Water Crisis
• California’s Recurring Nightmare: Nearly Half the State is Back in Drought
• If Climage Change Wrecks Your City, Can It Sue Exxon?

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• The Science Of Loneliness
• The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bite them
• These Will Be the Big Stories of 2018
• Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read
• Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors, experts say
• Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work
• It's Time For Innovators To Take Responsibility For Their Creations
• Americans Will Eat a Record Amount of Meat in 2018

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Having just lived through the massive fires in northern California — on top of watching news reports over the previous weeks of similarly abrupt "before/after" transitions in Houston, Florida, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, Las Vegas and Catalonia — I have a new-found appreciation for the maxim that when it arrives, change happens quickly — usually much more quickly than folks ever imagined, catching the general public off-guard and unprepared.

We humans tend to think linearly and comparatively. In other words, we usually assume the near future will look a lot like the recent past. And it does much of the time.

But other times it doesn't. And that's where the danger lies.

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