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Argentina’s decision to nationalise YPF – a subsidiary of Spanish energy company Repsol – has been met by international disapproval; though the Argentine government insists…
The world’s major 3,000 corporations are responsible for a third of global environmental damage, but economists are divided in their views of how to stop…
With all the debate in the United States over raising its debt ceiling, politicians and lawmakers are once again fighting over national spending. Democrats are…
Socio-economic problems have erupted in Yemen as the petrol crisis enters into its fifth month with little to no end in sight. The Yemeni oil…
In East China’s industrial province of Zhejiang there are 500,000 enterprises – and not enough electricity to run them all at the same time. Insiders…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani in London on May 8 to discuss Doha’s…
No sooner had we breathlessly reported April’s record highs for gold and silver, at over $1,500 and close to $50 per troy ounce respectively, than…
Iraq and Afghanistan sit near the top of a list of the world’s most corrupt nations despite years of occupation by Anglo-American forces and more…
Who says miracles can’t happen? After four straight days of steady decline, crude oil prices finally plummeted by nearly 9 percent on Thursday to US$99.80…
In a shocking report by Frederick Kaufman that has been featured on the Foreign Policy website, the role of Goldman Sachs and its Wall Street…
Betting on the future generally receives the stamp of immorality when elected officials and consumers come out on the losing end. President Barack Obama and…
Higher oil prices are usually good news for clean energy because they make costly technologies like solar and wind less daunting to investors. But for…
The world may have no more than half a century of oil left at current rates of consumption, while surging demand from emerging markets threatens…
The British oil giant BP has said it would pay $7.2 billion to buy into India’s fast-growing oil and gas industry. It is yet another…
In Asia, it's a truism that, as Chairman Mao put it, "the wind comes from the East", at least as far as the world economy…
For the last several months, several observers including ourselves have noted that whatever is going on at the “lower-value-added” end of the manufacturing and technology…
In a global economic scene dominated by continuing uncertainty, one of the few “sure bets” has SEEMED to be the “green tech / cleantech” sector.…
It is a sobering thought. In 2006, according to the UN, India was the fourth largest emitter of carbon dioxide (C02, or greenhouse gas) in…
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