Small, independent oil producers tell CNN most people don't even know they exist.

CNN: Stripper wells try to get more oil from ground

Check back soon for posts about those books and my correspondence with their authors, but the point of both books is that most people are not engaging with the tools that already exist to create value from their own knowledge.

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After so many financial crises in the past 40 years most reasonable people would now accept that bubbles in asset markets can exist.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

In Europe, clinical guidelines exist which ensure that only those people who will benefit most are targeted for treatment, and this has led to prescribing levels of between 12% and 16%.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The reality is that a sacrifice of some sort will have to be incurred by the present generation for the sake of people who will exist many years from now, in richer societies than ours and, most probably, in countries not our own.

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