Just when the economy starts to turn around, oil prices will skyrocket and imports will become much more expensive. It's the end of the global economy - and the revitalization of local economies. So says economist Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization. In Part 2, we're joined by Sam Matthews, executive vice president of Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation, who gives a local perspective.
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Carl Etnier hosts Equal Time Radio one day a week, focusing on energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil. More information about the program, and audio from other Equal Time hosts, is available at www.equaltimeradio.com.
You can a sense of Rubin's book in his op-ed here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-recession-first-there-was-expensive-oil/article1160647/
Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation: http://www.central-vt.com/cvedc
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