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Category Archives: Commodities
Come Back to Gold
by Ludwig von Mises, Ludwig von Mises Institute [Excerpted from chapter 11 of Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises.] The gold standard was an international standard. It safeguarded the stability of foreign exchange rates. It was a corollary of free … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Gold, Government, macroeconomics, money
Tagged consumer confidence, Economy, GDP, gold currency, industrial production, Ludwig von Mises, recovery, trade balance
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Solar Is About to Change Our World
by Michael Sankowski, MonetaryRealism.com I’ve been getting into Solar lately – the fall in prices has been absolutely shocking over the last 2-4 years. We are seeing price drops closer to 20% per year after several decades at 6% price … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged consumer confidence, Economy, energy, GDP, industrial production, Michael Sankowski, solar energy
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Dude, Where’s My Cheap Gas?
by James D. Hamilton, Econbrowser.com This article was originally published at Econbrowser. Those who have been told that oil production is booming may be wondering why the prices of oil and gasoline are climbing again.
Posted in Business News and Analysis, Commodities, Energy, GDP, Government, Trade Data
Tagged Economy, gasoline, James D. Hamilton, OIL, trade balance
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Is Inflation really a Problem?
by EconMatters, EconMatters.com Consumers only focus on Inflation, they ignore Deflation areas It seems that to exclusively focus on one side of the equation can be human nature at times, and with regard to inflation concerns humans never see the … Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Commodities, Economics, Federal Reserve, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged deflation, EconMatters, Economy, Federal Reserve, GDP, inflation, recession
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Stratfor: Russian Energy Strategy
By By Lauren Goodrich and Marc Lanthemann, Stratfor The future of Russia’s ability to remain a global energy supplier and the strength the Russian energy sector gives the Kremlin are increasingly in question. After a decade of robust energy exports … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged energy, exports, gas, Lauren Goodrich, Marc Lanthemann, OIL, peak oil, russia, saudi arabia, Stratfor
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Energy and the End of Growth
by Michael Edesess, AdvisorPerspectives.com Is economic growth coming to an end? That’s been a hot topic of discussion recently (including in this publication), thanks to a paper by Northwestern University economist Robert J. Gordon, Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? It … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, GDP, economic predictions
Tagged consumer confidence, Economy, Federal Reserve, fossil fuels, fossil fuels and growth, GDP, Michael Edesess
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Seaway Pipeline No Panacea for Cushing’s Oil Glut
by EconMatters EIA Report The weekly EIA report came out last week and one of the noteworthy data points was the Cushing, Oklahoma storage numbers. Already at a record, Cushing added another 1.8 million barrels to storage sending total Cushing … Continue reading
The Great Debate©: ‘Safe’ Nuclear Power from Thorium?
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, telegraph.co.uk and Steven Hansen Thorium is touted by many as the future energy source for the world. Thorium would be used in place of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors: it is abundant on Earth, it has … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Great Debate©, aa syndication
Tagged Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, nuclear, reactor, sodium, Steven Hansen, thorium
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The New Era of Oil Renaissance
by EconMatters In a continuation of our series on the state of the oil industry we look at some of the other ramifications of what we are labeling the Oil Renaissance in the US, and around the world for that … Continue reading
Posted in China, Commodities, Energy, GDP, Government
Tagged EconMatters, Economy, GDP, industrial production, OIL, trade balance
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Oil, Gasoline Markets End 2012 with Swollen Inventory Levels
by EconMatters EIA Inventory Data In analyzing the last EIA report of the year it is noteworthy that gasoline stocks really rose the last 5 weeks of the year. The takeaway isn`t so much that gasoline inventories rose 23 million … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, GDP, Trade Data
Tagged EconMatters, Economy, gasoline, GDP, OIL, trade balance
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Manipulation of Gasoline and Oil Markets
Gasoline & Oil Markets Rigged Far Worse Than Libor By EconMatters UBS paid $1.5 Billion for manipulating Libor, and Barclay`s already paid the piper for manipulating the Libor rate. Well, it is about time the CFTC get its act together, … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Trade Data
Tagged crude oil, EconMatters, gasoline, OIL, oil price, trade balance, US Reserves
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Stratfor: Geopolitics of Shale
By Robert D. Kaplan, Chief Geopolitical Analyst According to the elite newspapers and journals of opinion, the future of foreign affairs mainly rests on ideas: the moral impetus for humanitarian intervention, the various theories governing exchange rates and debt rebalancing … Continue reading
Posted in China, Energy, macroeconomics
Tagged energy, Robert D. Kaplan, shale, Stratfor, world
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Oiling the Rebalancing Machine
by Guest Author John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline A consistent theme in this letter has been the connections between items that may seem to be far removed from each other but are actually linked at the very core. If … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, GDP, Government, Taxation, Trade Data
Tagged energy policy, fiscal deficit, John Mauldin, OIL, peak energy, peak oil, sectoral balance, Thoughts from the Frontline, trade balance
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WTI Crude Oil To Test $65 Level in 2013
By EconMatters WTI closed November just shy of $89 a barrel on hopes of an improving economy. I think there is an argument for an improving economy in 2013, but it is just too early to tell how things are … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Trade Data
Tagged CAP EX, crude oil, crude oil price, EconMatters, Economy, EIA Report, OIL, oil price, OPEC, retail sales, US Reserves, west texas intermediate, wti
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Autos and the U.S. Energy Strategy
by Elliott Morss, Morss Global Finance Introduction The world is in the middle of a protracted energy transition. We know that dependency on oil must be lessened, but beyond that, it is not clear where we will end up. We … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged climate change, electric cars, Elliott Morss, energy consumption, fuel for cars, global warming, hybrid cars
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Dealing with Territorial Claims in a Thawing Arctic
by Ricardo Cornejo, GEI Associate Santa Claus’s days of reigning over a sovereign and independent North Pole are ceasing to exist as temperatures in the Arctic Circle warm up and the natural resource, land grab by surrounding countries nears. Danish … Continue reading
Effect of Global Warming on U.S. Energy Consumption
by Elliott Morss, Morss Global Finance Introduction Global warming is causing temperatures to rise. That will mean a greater demand for air conditioning and less for heating. Will the demand for more air conditioning be greater or less than the … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged air conditioning, climate change, Elliott Morss, energy, energy consumption, global warming, heating
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Think Carefully about an All-Electric World
by Elliott Morss, Morss Global Finance Introduction Increasingly, the world is using electricity. In 1973, global consumption of electricity was only 9% of the energy total. By 2009, the electricity share had increased to 17% [1]. Wouldn’t it be great … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged all-electric world, electricity, electricity waste, Elliott Morss, energy
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The Great Debate©: Is Productivity Improvement Good or Bad
by Tim Jackson, David Gordon and Joseph Russo Let’s Be Less Productive by Tim Jackson in The New York Times HAS the pursuit of labor productivity reached its limit? Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work … Continue reading
Can America Capitalize on Natural Gas?
by James D. Hamilton, reproduced from EconBrowser.com Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at Econbrowser with the title: Using Natural Gas Here’s a promising story for the U.S. economy. The figure below plots the price of crude oil in dollars … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged commodities, energy, exporting natural gas, James D. Hamilton, natural gas, OIL
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