Readings: Debt, Energy, Scrip, Slump, Transitions, Dipshits, Lithium, etc.

• Hagen: U.S. addicted to energy/debt (Source)
• Scrip as private money, monetary monopoly, and the rent-seeking state in Britain (Source)
• Skidelsky: Future generations will curse us for cutting in a slump (Source)
• Critical Transitions in Markets and Macroeconomic Systems at Macroeconomic Resilience (Source)
• Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur (Source)
• Is America the Next Lithium Powerhouse? (Source)

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