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Facts: Why United States Of America Is Ever Closer To The Next Big Energy Crisis And Stagflation By 2017

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (All numbers in this article are rounded up to nearest whole number. Source: CIA World Fact Book) Proven domestic US oil reserves: 20 billion barrels Unproven reserves (assumed): 20 billion barrels Domestic consumption: … Continue reading

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See-Saw Economics: The Macroeconomics of Oil

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (The following article is an excerpt from my book titled Coordination Games to explain Economic History and Growth Theory using the tool of Game Theory. My motivation for taking the view of a … Continue reading

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PL 112-98: George Clooney, Erbil, Khartoum, Tehran And The Coming Disenfranchisement Of Dissent

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa George Clooney, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative in the Hollywood flick Syriana, framed in the film by his own government for torture by Hezbollah, was arrested in front of the Embassy of Sudan … Continue reading

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Putin’s Oil?

By Jennifer Ciotta, Author and Editor, Greater New York City Area Subject Matter/Language Editor: Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Oil, Putin’s or Lorenzo’s, is not the cure-all for the world’s ills. Still, as we all know, Vladimir Putin stands … Continue reading

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The President Presents His Budget, 2

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I had written in 2010, about this same time, about the president’s budget (which has not yet been passed). The annual ritual in Washington calling on the politicians to tell the people whose money … Continue reading

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Persian Oil

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In 1953 a joint Anglo-American coup had installed the Shah in power in Iran because Winston Churchill had thought that British oil interests were at risk under the democratically elected government of Mossadegh. In … Continue reading

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Why Cheap Oil Is Not Really Cheap

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa John Stossel, a Princeton psychology graduate at Fox News and formerly of ABC News, recently wrote a blog post saying in his typical self-proclaimed libertarian vain, that U.S energy independence is not needed. Perhaps … Continue reading

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