Your Delusion Doesn't Make Me A "Doomer"

While the large number of civilian deaths and the large number of healthcare worker casualties have rightly garnered considerable attention during Israel’s ongoing invasion of Lebanon, the mass displacement of civilians has been relatively under-reported given the sheer scale and the legal implications. Early in the war Israeli officials bragged about displacing hundreds of thousands […]

US Energy Efficiency: We Have Come A Long Way Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The graph below paints a very interesting picture of US energy efficiency and a key structural economic change in this country. For roughly 25 years after WWII, the US economy’s crude oil consumption nearly tripled. Feeding the growth were a booming post-war economy and strong population growth. To put consumption in a different context, the graph shows consumption as a ratio to a dollar of real GDP, on a per capita basis. It shows that consumption per dollar of GDP declined rapidly starting...

Houthi Attack On Aramco Facility Kills Two; US Prepares More Diplomatic Evacuations In Riyadh Update(1540ET): A corrective from Reuters saying that the earlier alert for some diplomatic staff and their families to depart from the Gulf region actually only pertains to Saudi Arabia, amid the Houthi assault: Earlier, Reuters reported said the US State Department is preparing to issue an ordered departure of some personnel and family members at US embassies across the Gulf. Note, this update says just from Saudi Arabia, not the entire Gulf. Meanwhile, more has emerged on the fresh...