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by Higgenbotham
Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

A reference to this is buried in a link aeden posted. FABER: Right. And on the call, you talked about what you believe are still great opportunities, your words, for investors across a number of structural trends. I might expect that those include the likes of, what, AI? What else? FINK: Well, the c...
by Higgenbotham
Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

I haven't given my take on Boeing except to say that in the early 2000s there was a contingent of engineers within Boeing who believed management was leading the company down the tubes and one in particular who may have used that experience as the seed to start a collapse blog after he retired. Beyo...
by Higgenbotham
Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

One of the more interesting people who comes to mind is a retired Boeing engineer who was writing about collapse 15-20 years ago. I wonder if the seed that began to form his opinion was based on what he saw inside the company, the results of which are perhaps many years later being seen in the head...
by Higgenbotham
Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

This is a list of the types of specialists who might think about collapse. 1. Archaeologists - Done enough digging to realize that much of what they are digging up resulted from the collapse of civilizations 2. Historians - Looked at enough history to conclude that there are patterns of rise and fal...
by Higgenbotham
Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

Several Michigan Democrats Fail To Condemn ‘Death To America’ Chants HENRY RODGERS AND ZACK BRAVE CONTRIBUTOR April 10, 2024 A number of Democratic elected officials in Michigan failed to condemn “Death to America” chants made at an Al Quds Day Rally in Dearborn, Michigan, late last week. An activi...
by Higgenbotham
Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

As a successful physics professor at a top institution in academia, Tom Murphy broke ranks in one of the hardest possible ways at the peak of his career. One reason this is so difficult, and it came to mind when writing this, is he knows he can only credibly discuss collapse in physics terms to cer...
by Higgenbotham
Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:04 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

It's been said that Jared Diamond is a polymath. If someone is a polymath and in demand, that's a difficult role in today's world. The last days of the polymath – The Economist Edward Carr | Autumn 2009 Mindful of that sort of promiscuity, I asked my colleagues to suggest living polymaths of the po...
by Higgenbotham
Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:18 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

The basic reasons why Europeans became dominant were summed up in Jared Diamond’s book Guns Germs and Steel . With these, they were able to implement colonial imperialism and thus gain advantage over other cultures. It is not due to superior culture, religion or genes. (He also wrote a book called ...
by Higgenbotham
Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Defining Terms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFrxgMFbN8c The transcript of the first 15 minutes of this video is copied below. Some long term themes: Giant sucking sound of the US dollar system US economy is too inefficient The cost structure of the US is too high Utilities such as education, health care and fi...
by Higgenbotham
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: The New Dark Age
Topic: Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel
Replies: 1938
Views: 2572611

Re: Defining Terms

World per capita energy use has been stagnant for several years. If the developed economies were getting huge gains in efficiency to offset the decline in their per capita energy use, that would be one thing but they aren't. Instead, the FIRE economy is filling in the gaps to keep GDP floating high...