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Overnight News, Views, Charts & Graphs for Week of March 24 - 31, 2014







Zero Hedge - China's Credit Pipeline Slams Shut: Companies Scramble For The Last Drops Of Liquidity







UGO Bardi - "Peak Gold: How The Romans Lost Their Empire" 


Company insiders are selling 6 shares of their companies for every 1 they buy 

Fed's Monetary Base Is Still Exploding Despite The 3 Card Tapering Game Mesmerizing Investors

Must Read: Ice Cap Asset Management - "Connecting the Dots"


SandP Downgrades Brazilian Debt to BBB- from BBB

10AM EST, Tuesday, 25 March 14 = Consumer Confidence Poll and New Home Sales numbers to be released

Republicans play politics with IMF money earmarked for Ukraine

Peak Oil Review for Week of March, 24, 2014 

Eisenhower's words from his farewell address to the nation as he left office are truer than ever

Review: Snake Oil: how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future

Jesse: The Hunger Games

Ritholtz: Everything That Is Wrong With This Monday

Why Advance Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Can Win If Price Wars Break Out Between Sony and Microsoft Gaming Divisions

09 January 2014

David Suzuki On Population Growth: "We've Already Passed the 59th Minute"

David Suzuki has a short video clip, 3 minutes, 27 seconds long, in which he describes exponential growth when it hits the 59th minute and can no longer be sustained.

 As a mind exercise, he uses a test tube with one bacteria in minute 1, and then describes how quickly the test tube fills in different time intervals. As Suziki points out, it's not until the 55th minute that the test tube is 3% full. The 56th minute the test tube is 6% full. The 57th minute the test tube is 12% full, and in the 58th minute, the test tube 24% full, and by the 59th minute, the test tube is almost half-full leading bacteria to think (if they could think) "Look at how long it took us to get to only half full, we can continue to live this way and put off the hard decisions later."

In reality, in the 60th minute, the test tube will be full, and as Suzuki postulates, the only way for the bacteria to continue exponentially growing is to fund scientists to build say three new test tubes for the new bacteria to grow into and spread. But here's the problem with that. In the 61st minute, the second test tube fills up. And in the 62nd minute, all four test tubes are filled. If you lay his example over the Earth's population growth, you understand why he's a believer in Peak Growth, that the way we are living is unsustainable:

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