plug a bag of guys or a part time out of boston to speak with energy analyst gregory macdonald of greger dot com gregor welcome back to the kaiser report good to see you max it's great to be about the new blog you write paper versus real exit from normal ecological economics and problem ballistic regimes in one chart wow you got all that in one chart the chart is the thirty year treasury bond versus the c.r.p. the commodity research bureau index tells about it tells us a couple of things first let's just note that since two thousand and two the u.s. dollar has expressed uther in dollar terms we're just in terms of u.s. treasury bonds has lost about sixty five percent of its purchasing power ok i see broad basket of commodities and i just find that with this latest ramp up over the last two years in worldwide commodity prices in the global financial community there's a real reluctance to own up to the fact to face up to the fact that paper currency is losing its purchasing power against natural resources so i do think is it starting off point it's worth just pointing out empirically that

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dictionary charles balls you should put a picture of chalabi and also remember you interviewed gregory macdonald the energy analyst recently and one of the things you brought up is that at the tipping point will come when a certain wrong certain class of americans start spending more and more up to thirty forty fifty percent of their income on energy costs and we're starting to see that in the numbers this study shows that in mississippi residents are paying up to five seventeen percent of their disposable household incomes for energy that includes household heating and costs and gasoline but gasoline makes up the most percentage of it that's right that's what makes the third world the third world you put fifty sixty seventy percent of your income on buying you know getting acquiring food energy cooking oil and of course the first world or the first world because those people in office spend more than ten or fifteen percent of their income on stuff to keep him alive and now it's changing and the people who were in the first world are really now in the second world the first world is occupied by

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