Prudent Bear - Featured Commentary

Part 4: A course of action

There are no silver bullets to solve our looming energy crisis, resource depletion, and environmental pollution.

Part 3: Whatever your feelings on global warming, fossil fuels are running out

Two years ago, 77% of the United States thought that climate change was a major problem. Today, only 55% think that to be true.

Part 2: A theory that works

Energy - not labor, capital or technology – is what drives the U.S. economy.

Part 1: Why are we so rich?

The question of the day is how we get out of our economic morass?

The China Syndrome

In 1971, Ralph Lapp, a nuclear physicist, used the term "China syndrome" to describe a hypothetical nuclear reactor meltdown where the molten core breaches containment barriers and melts through the crust of the Earth reaching China.