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Published 14 April 2011 | viewed 2,608 times
The reasons for oil to keep rising are well known--perhaps too well known. Let's look at some charts to illustrate the swirling currents in the…
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Published 28 February 2011 | viewed 1,495 times
It's pretty easy to sum up America's role in the global market for oil: We need it, they got it. Here are the numbers, via…
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Published 02 February 2011 | viewed 2,438 times
Below are a series of charts that take a look at the current situation of alternative energy, oil and other fossil fuels and the importance…
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Published 13 January 2011 | viewed 1,304 times
Conventional wisdom is that the Fed wants the U.S. dollar lower, so it must drop. But the dollar seems to be lacking proper obedience to…
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Published 23 November 2010 | viewed 1,663 times
The top 20% are prospering and spending money; the bottom 80% are not, but thanks to vast wealth disparity, the top slice of households can…
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Published 22 October 2010 | viewed 3,402 times
The Great Game is afoot and no matter how we may disapprove of the Global Empire, we would be wise not to discount the cards…
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Published 17 September 2010 | viewed 1,262 times
The Mainstream Media in the U.S. has presented two basic approaches to understanding China's real estate bubble:
1. There is no bubble in Chinese real…
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Published 07 September 2010 | viewed 969 times
Nobody knows the future, so the best we can do is strive for an open mind and flexibility in our thinking and responses.
In 1904,…
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Published 03 September 2010 | viewed 126 times
China's "nuclear option"--selling its vast stash of U.S. Treasuries to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy and interest rates--has been downgraded by the flood of…
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Published 23 August 2010 | viewed 1,961 times
Despite the legislative churn that produced thousands of pages of new laws and regulations and much self-congratulatory PR, nothing of any importance has changed.
All…
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Published 07 July 2010 | viewed 5,314 times
Advocates of a smooth transition away from petroleum may be surprised by the consequences of huge swings in the cost of oil.
I first proposed…
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Published 05 July 2010 | viewed 1,358 times
China's strengths get relentless coverage, its headwinds less so.
We all know China's strengths: hard-working populace, high savings rate, a so-far wildly successful marriage of…
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Published 12 June 2010 | viewed 2,226 times
Any system, organization or device is only as strong as its weakest component. What are the weakest links in the U.S. culture and economy?
The…
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Published 10 June 2010 | viewed 3,819 times
Teasing apart the various forces acting on the price of gold reveals the complex financial character of the yellow metal.
That gold is in a…
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Published 08 June 2010 | viewed 2,376 times
The explosion of Deepwater Horizon and the collapse of Lehman Brothers share similar characteristics of risk, denial and coverup.
My good friend G.F.B. recently observed…
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Published 27 May 2010 | viewed 1,781 times
A slow-growth real economy has been replaced with a credit-based speculative financial economy dependent on low interest rates and systemic fraud to survive. It is…
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Published 19 May 2010 | viewed 3,441 times
Does the Chinese stock market presage the U.S. market's direction? If so, the U.S. market is set for a fall.
The economies of China and…
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Published 17 May 2010 | viewed 1,940 times
Something profound has happened, obscured by all the concerns about economic details and speculation about whether we are in a “deep recession” or a “depression,”…
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Published 14 May 2010 | viewed 2,109 times
With the world teetering on the edge of another global financial meltdown, it's a good time to revisit my May 2008 Oil "Head-Fake" Scenario.
In…
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Published 13 May 2010 | viewed 2,686 times
The foundation of the American lifestyle and economy is cheap oil. Remove that prop and every aspect of that lifestyle becomes questionable.
Not to sound…