It may be part of the mix as a bridge to a transition to new technologies and new energy sources, but we should be pretty modest in understanding that the easily accessible oil has already been sucked up out of the ground.

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Policymakers have a better understanding now than they did then, of how easily funding problems for one country's banks can turn global.

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Sometimes we ask for better understanding and visualization becomes the only way to grasp complex patterns easily.

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