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The Economics and Geopolitics of Fracking w/ Bethany McLean (Perch Pod Repost)

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Importance of Capital in Fracking

I always thought of fracking as really an owed to US technical innovation. Like the Americans have figured out how to use technology again in order to get ahead of the game. If it weren't for the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting era of low interest rates, you can question how big fracking ever would have become. So the story is as much a financial one as it is a technological one, if not more.

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