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In the spirit of ol’ C.W., I’m trying to explain just exactly why our truck is running away and why we have precious little time to apply some brake.

Why is oil $123 per barrel? Because the world is running out of crude, that simple. Why is America in recession? Because we are running out of lies. The title of my book is “The Biggest Lie Ever Believed.” That lie is that “Growth is good.” until such time that we understand that ever increasing growth cannot be sustained in a finite world, we will continue our march to the bottom.

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Mike Folkerth is the author of "The Biggest Lie Ever Believed" and is not your run-of-the-mill author of finance and economics. The former real estate broker, developer, private real estate fund manager, auctioneer, Alaskan bush pilot, (more...)
 
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