Money and Finance
Nolan's book, Is China Buying the World?, was recommended by Vaclav Smil.
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Vaclav Smil: Making the Modern World [video] (LINK) Related book: Making the Modern WorldMark Buchanan: Arrow-Debreu Derangement Syndrome (LINK) Related book: Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About...
- Jim Grant: The World Has Never Seen The Likes Of China’s Credit Frenzy
Via ValueWalk:HERETOFORE UNIMAGINED The world has never seen the likes of China’s credit frenzy. From year-end 2008 through the third quarter of 2013, assets on the balance sheets of Chinese banks grew by $15.1 trillion to $24.3 trillion. That growth...
- This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba....
- Jeremy Grantham, Starving For Facts – By Vaclav Smil
A big thanks to Kent for passing this along. Two guys I really respect, with two very opposing views. Grantham’s article that Smil is referencing is available HERE. Link to: Jeremy Grantham, Starving for Facts – By Vaclav Smil ...
- Richard Duncan Quotes
Longer excerpt from The New Depression (taken from my Kindle highlights, so the excerpts aren’t necessarily the paragraphs I have put them in below, and there may be things in between that I didn’t highlight). “…the paper money creation by the...
Money and Finance
Peter Nolan introduces Is China Buying the World?
Nolan's book, Is China Buying the World?, was recommended by Vaclav Smil.
Link
- Links
Vaclav Smil: Making the Modern World [video] (LINK) Related book: Making the Modern WorldMark Buchanan: Arrow-Debreu Derangement Syndrome (LINK) Related book: Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About...
- Jim Grant: The World Has Never Seen The Likes Of China’s Credit Frenzy
Via ValueWalk:HERETOFORE UNIMAGINED The world has never seen the likes of China’s credit frenzy. From year-end 2008 through the third quarter of 2013, assets on the balance sheets of Chinese banks grew by $15.1 trillion to $24.3 trillion. That growth...
- This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba....
- Jeremy Grantham, Starving For Facts – By Vaclav Smil
A big thanks to Kent for passing this along. Two guys I really respect, with two very opposing views. Grantham’s article that Smil is referencing is available HERE. Link to: Jeremy Grantham, Starving for Facts – By Vaclav Smil ...
- Richard Duncan Quotes
Longer excerpt from The New Depression (taken from my Kindle highlights, so the excerpts aren’t necessarily the paragraphs I have put them in below, and there may be things in between that I didn’t highlight). “…the paper money creation by the...