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- Russia’s Oil Spills Dwarf Gulf Spill (Clare Delaney, EcoFriendlyLink) Hat tip to Roger Erickson. Author claims Russia spills 6x as much oil as BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 every year. Delaney says remote spills of 30 million gallons are in relatively remote areas, unpublicized and not cleaned up, creating some environmental nightmares.
- Gundlach: Golden Age of Housing Is Over (Janet Levaux, ThinkAdvisor) Bond guru Jeffrey Gundlach says he is surprised at the enthusiasm for single-family housing. He notes that “data is no better than they were at the so-called trough of the recession“. Keith Jurow has been analyzing data and reaching the same conclusion for the past three years. See Keith’s latest GEI Analysis article on the difficulties in CRE (commercial real estate) markets.
- Minyanville’s Harrison: Online Media Model Is ‘Broken’ (Paul Vigna, MoneyBeat, The Wall Street Journal) After 13 years, Todd Harrison is putting Minyanville up for sale. He says the ad-based business model doesn’t work and he wants to get his creation into hands that will pursue a different business model. Here is a great quote: “The Internet is the most deflationary invention of all time.”
- As solar panels boom, it was the simple business model that the big energy players missed (Katie Fehrenbacher, Gigaom) Sora panels are a booming business and none is growing faster than Soar City. The company doesn’t sell solar panels, it leases them.
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