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A Look Behind Rising Food Prices: Population Growth; Rising Oil Prices; Weather Events

Feb 21, 2011 at 08:42

Rising food prices, crowned by a recent record high spike and chronicled in the graph below, have played a role in triggering the spread of unrest that we’ve witnessed recently…

Carbon Emissions Could Cost $8 Trillion Over the Next 20 Years

Feb 21, 2011 at 08:40

The economic cost of carbon emissions over the next 20 years could amount to $8 trillion, according to a study by investment consultants Mercer. This is what will happen if…

Realignment in Oil Pricing Could Dramatically Effect Energy Stocks

Feb 21, 2011 at 08:32

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 at the IntercontinentalExchange(ICE), is more,…

Can Zero Point Energy Gain Credibility?

Feb 21, 2011 at 08:26

There is a lot of activity in Zero Point Energy around the world.  In the U.S. it remains an oddball or unscientific field.  In other places the science is taken…

4XP Wins World Finance Award for Best Trading Platform in Western Europe for 2011

Feb 21, 2011 at 08:21

Feb 15, 2011, London Stock Exchange – 4XP rises above the competition to win World Finance’s prestigious annual award for most innovative trading platform.This seal of approval from…

The Population Bomb Echoes

Feb 20, 2011 at 19:36

Pack your portfolios with agricultural plays like Potash (POT), Mosaic (MOS), and Agrium (AGU) if Dr. Paul Ehrlich is just partially right about the impending collapse in the world’s food…

Egypt’s Declining Oil Fields Lead to Growing Reliance on Natural Gas

Feb 18, 2011 at 09:02

Current events in Egypt and throughout the Arab world have captivated world attention and with good reason — in 2009, Arab nations exported approximately 17 million barrels of oil and…

A Look at Oil Shale

Feb 18, 2011 at 08:41

Oil shale, which is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock, contains significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be extracted. Kerogen requires…

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

Feb 18, 2011 at 08:35

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%. This isn’t news.  It has…

Iran-Turkey-Syria-Egypt Bloc Moves Closer With Profound Global Effect

Feb 18, 2011 at 08:32

Egyptian Pres. Hosni Mubarak’s decision on the night of February 10, 2011, to hand over some of the powers of the Presidency to Vice-Pres. Omar Suleiman can only be seen…

Inaction on climate change is risky business

Feb 18, 2011 at 08:15

Like a family that has no homeowner’s insurance, no fire detectors, a gas leak in the basement and a bad case of denial, the global community remains unprepared for irreversible…

Is shale Oil the Answer to Peak Oil?

Feb 17, 2011 at 08:11

Readers have been asking questions about a couple of shale oil articles recently. One is an AP article called New drilling method opens vast oil fields in US. A…

Synthetic Petrol Causing Ecological Concerns in Iran

Feb 17, 2011 at 08:02

Tehran says it is becoming self-sufficient in petrol, in the hope of warding off the pain of further economic sanctions. But the effort has many detractors inside Iran, who say…

A Rest for the Treasury Bond Sell Off

Feb 17, 2011 at 07:58

The Great Treasury Bond Sell Off, which has been running now for nearly six months, may be about to take a rest. Take a look at the chart below put…

Incredible Geothermal Energy Potential in the United States

Feb 17, 2011 at 07:50

USGS estimates 500,000 MWe of EGS geothermal resource potential lies beneath the western United States. This is approximately half of the current installed electric power generating capacity in the United…

Money and Reserves

Feb 17, 2011 at 07:46

I wanted to offer some clarification on stories about all the money that the Federal Reserve is supposedly printing. It depends, I guess, on your definition of "money." And your…

Environmentalists Damaging US Economy and Job Growth

Feb 17, 2011 at 07:43

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 he wouldn’t find opportunities aplenty…

The Collapse of the Yen: The Big Break is Near

Feb 16, 2011 at 13:26

“Oh, how I despise the yen, let me count the ways.” I’m sure Shakespeare would have come up with this line of iambic pentameter if he were a foreign exchange…

Was Last Week Really a Game Changer for the Oil Industry?

Feb 16, 2011 at 10:04

This past week was supposedly the week of the game changer in the world of oil. Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia called into question the ability of the…

The Global Economy: What Next?

Feb 16, 2011 at 08:45

4XP foresees much on the financial front of 2011. The previous financial year really did witness a lot of ground-breaking events from the global economy. Oil prices rose from right…

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