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• Global Cost of Piracy is now $12 Billion Per Year: Oil Industry No.1 Target

  Published 23 March 2011 | viewed 2,121 times

  Hollywood pirates such as Jack Sparrow and Blackbeard are glorified characters among uncivilized peers, stealing from the rich and acquiring bounties of gold. While the…

• Peak Oil, Cheap Oil and Stagflation

  Published 21 March 2011 | viewed 348 times

  America is addicted to oil. We deem it a constitutional right to drive Hummers and have $4 a gallon gasoline. But there is an Achille’s…

• At Least One Eurozone Country Will Default if Brent Crude Rises to $150 a Barrel

  Published 02 March 2011 | viewed 6,719 times

  If the price of Brent crude oil surges to $150 a barrel, one eurozone country will default and the whole region will fall into recession,…

• How Would the Economy be Affected by $100 Oil?

  Published 28 February 2011 | viewed 1,350 times

  Oil has crossed the $100 threshold a couple times in the last day or so, but there’s still a lot of confusion over what that…

• Libyan Unrest Causes Commodity Prices to Skyrocket

  Published 23 February 2011 | viewed 1,600 times

  As political turmoil and violent social unrest continue to plague Libya, a massive economic mushroom cloud has emerged in the form of unprecedented upward price…

• Realignment in Oil Pricing Could Dramatically Effect Energy Stocks

  Published 21 February 2011 | viewed 1,988 times

  The historic disconnect between West Texas Intermediate, the global oil benchmark traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME), and Brent crude oil, the relative "upstart" traded…

• Peak Oil is Not a Future Event – Saudi Arabia’s Overstated Reserves Help Prove This

  Published 18 February 2011 | viewed 3,424 times

  A lot of noise is being made about Wikileaks info that says the US thinks the Saudi’s are overstating their Proven Reserves by about 40%.…

• Environmentalists Damaging US Economy and Job Growth

  Published 17 February 2011 | viewed 1,327 times

  If President Obama is serious about smoothing the path for U.S. businesses, he should take up reading the newspaper. Not a day goes by that…

• Gold and Silver are Not Exhibiting Anything Remotely Like Bubble Behavior

  Published 16 February 2011 | viewed 322 times

  Precious metals have certainly caught a lot of attention in the past year or so.  Whether it has been related to the ongoing Euro crisis,…

• Gas Prices Hit Record Levels for February

  Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 1,821 times

  U.S. gasoline prices have jumped to the highest levels ever for the middle of February. The national average hit $3.127 per gallon on Friday, about…

• Despite High Prices - There is no Bubble in Commodities

  Published 11 February 2011 | viewed 1,627 times

  High prices do not mean a bubbles. High prices are just high prices. Humans are horrible at best in predicting either the frequency or the…

• Shale Gas Revolution is Changing the Politics of Energy

  Published 10 February 2011 | viewed 3,378 times

  The natural gas cartel, a dream of Russia’s just a few years ago, is dead. It died when a natural gas revolution broke out and…

• Morgan Stanley’s Chief Strategist Talks, Oil, Gold and Bailouts

  Published 09 February 2011 | viewed 198 times

  David Darst, Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist of Morgan Stanley spoke at the Harbor Investment Conference yesterday and he laid out a few investment…

• Turmoil in The Middle East

  Published 29 January 2011 | viewed 1,594 times

  The force multipliers escalating events in the Middle East are television and social networking.  People in Egypt saw what happened in Tunisia and took heart. …

• Will Obama Force BP into Bankruptcy?

  Published 15 June 2010 | viewed 1,598 times

  BP is already down and out, but President Obama has the power to force the petroleum company into bankruptcy once and for all. An article…

• Is Shale Gas the Holy Grail it's cracked up to be? Well Known Analyst Says No

  Published 26 April 2010 | viewed 156 times

  Compared to virtually all commodities of late, natural gas has been an absolute dog.  Holders of a certain natural gas ETF have been forced to…

• Saudi Arabia to Build the First Nuclear Power Station in the Gulf States

  Published 23 April 2010 | viewed 3,623 times

  The government of Saudi Arabia has announced a new section of its capital Riyadh is set to be powered solely by nuclear energy. This will…

• Iran Storing Oil at Sea Due to Weak Demand

  Published 17 April 2010 | viewed 1,890 times

  Iran, the world's fifth-largest oil producing nation, is increasing the amount of oil is stores in tankers at sea. Iranian officials say this is due…

• The End of European Expansion and the Coming Debt Wars

  Published 08 April 2010 | viewed 1,508 times

  Government debt in Greece is just the first in a series of European debt bombs that are set to explode. The mortgage debts in post-Soviet…

• The U.S. No Longer Controls the Price of Oil in a Peak Oil World

  Published 20 March 2010 | viewed 3,790 times

  Back in the days when US oil demand controlled the price of oil, a massive recession in the United States would have sent oil to…