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Nate's Reality Report Interview - Hurricanes, Financial Markets and Peak Oil

Posted by Gail the Actuary on September 15, 2008 - 10:16pm
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: hurricanes, jason bradford, nate hagens, original, peak oil, reality report [list all tags]

Last week, Nate Hagens was interviewed by Jason Bradford on the "Reality Report". The radio program is about 47 minutes long, and Nate's interview is the last 40% of it. A link to his interview can be found


here

The first part of the show is an interview with a woman who has been living without electric power since Hurricane Gustav hit. She talks about how the experience has changed her life, and about her thoughts regarding preparing for future energy shortages. The latter part of the show is an interview with Nate on various subjects related to hurricanes, the credit market, hedge funds, and peak oil. He talks a little about the Fannie and Freddie bailout, and about trying to change people's way of thinking about the future.



The Global Public Media site describes the program as follows:

Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico are a major concern for the whole United States as our economy relies on the fossil fuels and their byproducts from the region, and Gulf ports for global trade. This program explores how our anxiety over these storms reflects the lack of resiliency in our current energy and trade systems. Guests are Nina Tassin, a resident of Donaldsonville Louisiana, and Nate Hagens of University of Vermont and The Oil Drum.

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