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North Dakota's prosperous oil-powered economy remains as strong as ever despite the wishful hopes and claims of left-leaning media that the state economy will go bust. On June 27 the Atlantic published an article titled "A North Dakota Oil Boom Goes Bust," with the subhead "What will happen to those who built their lives on it?" The theme of the article was North Dakotans are suffering miserably and being played the fool by a predatory oil industry that soaked up the state's oil when prices were high and have now shut down operations. The end result, according to the Atlantic, is abandoned "graveyards" of formerly productive oil rigs, rapidly rising unemployment, "unraveling" economic conditions, and a statewide economic bust that is "diminishing" the lives of those who live there. The Atlantic's message is unmistakably clear – North Dakotans are worse off now than before North Dakota oil production took off, and it would have been better for North Dakotans if the oil boom had never happened at all.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_nd-oil-pic_2.jpg