Yes, but I still haven't claimed that you automatically return to the trend! I said that even if you believe in that idea, there will be lost output if you don't act contracyclically. And returning to a full employment equilibrium in the long run by doing nothing (through wage deflation and without stimulus), does not necessarilly mean you catch up to the trend. You might fall behind the trend permanently, but still reach an equilibrium, just one where GDP is lower, lagging timewise, compared to if you had intervened in the short term.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

"However, unlike most "saltwater" economists today"

This would not include Krugman, DeLong, Stiglitz, Yves Smith or Thomas, for a start.

I don't really have time to read many more. But really, you can't say "no-one in the mainstream" is saying something that Krugman, co-author of one of the main university manuals, is banging the drums about day and night.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

An axiomatic-deductive system of thought needs no firm connection to physical reality. Elegance of form and the appeal of the axioms will do nicely.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."