Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

Jeff Rubin talks about how skyrocketing oil prices will see a regression in global economies, and a return to local ones, as outlined in his new book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller.

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[Physicsnerd1]

WOW! Great summation!

Jeff Rubin has summed up in 7:28 minutes the cause of our current economic situation and the complexity of its solution.

EXCELLENT!

[wolffmannnn]

Smart Man--I want to read his new book.

On un-related matters...where did his Canadian accent go? You have to go south of Columbus before people start talkin' the way he's talkin'

[MrCropper]

"Does his vision still make sense? Will it still play out the way he predicted?"

No. He's an alarmist idiot. Didn't you notice that yet? The USA will soon be a net energy exporter, like Canada already is. Oil crisis is cliche.

[Microscopic Truth]

We're now in 2012, after his End of Growth book. So according to Rubin, are we in a recession and staying there? And therefore we aren't going to see the oil prices he previously predicted? Or is he saying, that when we eventually do climb out of the recession, then his vision will unfold, with record oil prices and the dominoes effect? Does his vision still make sense? Will it still play out the way he predicted?

[Pikaaoil]

@1ddb1 - What he was saying is that tripple digit oil prices caused the last recession..not the housing crisis. Simply supply and demand, where the DEMAND of oil has increased exponentially bc of China and India. The SUPPLY of oil has peaked Globally and has not increased since 2004. Therefore demand is hitting a supply ceiling causing oil prices to spike. Only demand destruction caused by a recession will cause oil prices to temporarily fall..until the next economic upswing. Bumpy plateau

[Diego Velazquez]

this mother fucker has no idea what he is talking about and if you think he does you are as stupid as him, or American in that case, quoting from about minute 00:45 to 1:00, How does the Cleveland House market created a recesion in Germany and Japan that was twice as big as in the USA even before Cleveland itself went into recesion. So did Cleveland created the recesion or not, please explain Mr. Rubin, hahahaha

[viragemasta]

lol

[IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO]

Eloquent and avoids the usual alarmist traps

[notoriousn1ck]

excellent talk.

P.S. "thumbs up" if you think he looks like the dad from the OC.

[LucasChiasson31]

lol this is my friends dad

pretty funny guy

[updownleftrightinout]

"Distance will cost money." No more cheap plane rides to the next city. You can drive a small car or pay more.

[acsial]

Some issues I have with Mr. Rubin's thesis:

*Much of the existing oil reserves haven't been tapped, simply because they're less 'convenient' to access--like the Empty Quarter.

*Unless immigration is throttled down, Canada will keep adding 250k+ people a year to our cities. No amount of New Urbanist 'smart' growth will stem the loss of farmland from this.

*Developed farmland is forever lost to agriculture.

*Water and food--not oil--are the 'peak' resources that we're going to have to watch.