Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources by Adam Taggart Author Kurt Cobb writes frequently on energy and the environment and warns that our current economic policy suffers from a fatal degree of magical thinking: sufficient new resources will emerge if the price is high enough. Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources by Adam Taggart Author Kurt Cobb writes frequently on energy and the environment and warns that our current economic policy suffers from a fatal degree of magical thinking: sufficient new resources will emerge if the price is high enough.