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Aug 02, 2011 at 08:03

In my travels around the globe, I have never been to another country that regards their oil companies as we do here in the U.S. I have actually been in…

Aug 02, 2011 at 07:52

Some time ago an economist with whom I had an extensive exchange suggested that the best way to incentivize an energy transition would be to tax what we don't want…

Aug 02, 2011 at 07:47

Canadian oil sands producers are making progress on many fronts, to produce a cleaner and more environmentally friendly product, in ever greater quantities. Brian Wang discusses the N-Solv Process, and…

Aug 01, 2011 at 18:00

Back in the seventies and eighties, when inflation was soaring well into double digits, the markets were regularly punished by a band of gun slinging traders known as the “bond…

Aug 01, 2011 at 08:50

Crude oil futures were up on Monday, recouping steep losses from the previous session as fears over a possible U.S. default eased after the White House announced an agreement to…

Aug 01, 2011 at 07:22

Perhaps the biggest foreign-policy story of the past decade, thoroughly overlooked by the American media after 9/11 and its subsequent monomaniacal focus on terrorism, security and the wars in Iraq…

Aug 01, 2011 at 07:18

The debt debate has been going on all summer, a 2 months and running theatrical experience of court jesters parading about while the United States economy teeters on the edge.…

Aug 01, 2011 at 07:15

September Natural Gas futures prices fell close to 6.0% last week and closed in a position to challenge the early July bottom at 4.067 and a pair of major bottoms…

Aug 01, 2011 at 07:12

Grab the lime and salt!  Tequila may soon offer more than just delicious frozen margaritas.  Researchers find that the agave plant, used to distill the famous Mexican spirit, may also…

Jul 31, 2011 at 10:41

Another bucket of cold water was thrown on financial markets on Friday with the shocking release of Q2 GDP of 1.3%. The whisper number prior to the release was at…

Jul 31, 2011 at 09:22

September Crude Oil futures declined 1.8% to $95.70 on Friday after a weaker than expected U.S. GDP report signaled the economy may be growing at a slower than expected pace.…

Jan 16, 2012 at 21:42

Western investors can be forgiven for having the perception that China has bought Africa's energy assets lock, stock and barrel. Last month however, a new oil frontier opened in South…

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:51

If Cuba's Fidel Castro is America's favorite Latin American bête noire, then Venezuela's Hugo Chavez qualifies as Washington's reigning Prince of Darkness. In 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized US business…

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:29

The summer brings back Hurricane season, with the threat that such storms bring to the oil and gas well operations in the Gulf of Mexico. And the National Oceanic and…

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:24

As the price of petroleum edges up in fits and starts, booms and busts, substitution products are coming on board to replace petroleum in many uses -- including fuels, plastics,…

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:22

China’s fast-growing green economy could provide millions of new jobs in the coming decade, according to a study from the Worldwatch Institute. The environmental research group estimates that 4.5 million…

Jul 29, 2011 at 07:18

A review of the gold price written by Robin Bew, chief economist at HSBC Bank, proposes that the gold price is in danger of entering bubble territory and predicts a…

Jul 28, 2011 at 08:21

Nine decades after Lenin and his Bolsheviks imposed Communism on the Russian empire and two decades after the implosion of the USSR, some of the country’s largest industrial conglomerates retained…

Jul 28, 2011 at 08:18

A lot of the problems that are happening with PEMEX is due to poor allocation of funds by the government. Whether they are overspending on social programs or just taking…

Jul 28, 2011 at 08:11

Germany’s anti-nuclear movement is the poster-boy of its kind in Europe, even worldwide. Over the course of nearly forty years this potent, enduring campaign swayed German public opinion decisively against…