Resource Insights

The characteristic feeling of the post-2008 world has been one of anxiety. Occasionally, that anxiety breaks out into fear as it did in the ...

With stock markets around the world plunging and commodity prices in free fall, it seems appropriate to return to a theme which I've tak...

Market fundamentalists tell us that prices convey information. Yet, while our barbers and hairdressers might be able to give us an extended ...

Two recent films couldn't be more at odds in their vision of the future. Mad Max: Fury Road is the long-awaited continuation of the Mad...

Jeremy Rifkin announced the end of work in a book by that title in 1995. Today, we are once again being told that the end of work is nigh. ...

Those under the impression that climate change is advancing at a constant and predictable rate don't understand the true dynamics of the...

The plunge in oil prices last year led many to say that a decline in U.S. oil production wouldn't be far behind. This was because almost...

Defenders of the free market faith tell us that price conveys a great deal of information, enough that you can base an entire economic syste...

There's an old joke about lab rats in which the teller says he or she secretly suspects that all lab rats are prone to cancer and so all...

I'm taking a short break and expect to post again on Sunday, July 5.