collapse as we know it, forever."

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The rise in oil and grain prices over the last several months will be reaching Main Street by this winter. Gonzalo Lira argues that those price rises, coupled with the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing 2—scheduled for announcement in the coming two weeks—as well as the escalating Currency War with China will inevitably lead to runaway inflation: And he is prediciting it will start this March of 2011. —Gonzalo LiraEconomic losses from US hurricanes consistent with an influence from climate change

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Francisco Estrada, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Richard S. J. Tol

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Nature Geoscience

States the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events has changed, but the observed increases in natural disaster losses are often thought to result solely from societal change, such as increases in exposure and vulnerability

Analyzes the economic losses from tropical cyclones in the United States, using a regression-based approach instead of a standard normalization procedure to changes in exposure and vulnerability, to minimize the chance of introducing a spurious trend

Uses statistical models to estimate the contributions of socioeconomic factors to the observed trend in losses and we account for non-normal and nonlinear characteristics of loss data

Identifies an upward trend in economic losses between 1900 and 2005 that