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7 Ways Growth Ends | Frankly 164

Podcast: The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens · Nate Hagens

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

In this week's Frankly, Nate examines the possibility that global economic growth is approaching its limits, reframing it as a historically unusual period in human history enabled by an extraordinary inheritance of fossil fuels. By tracing the relationship between economic output and the energy, materials, and ecological systems that sustain it, Nate uncovers how financial markets, debt, and technological innovation can obscure the physical constraints beneath economic activity, allowing financial claims to expand even as the underlying stocks and flows become harder to access. He outlines seven potential pathways to the end of growth, including how things like geopolitical...