Posts Tagged ‘ oil price ’

The Price of Oil and the Inflation Time Bomb of Autumn

Oct 13th, 2009 | By Paul Tustain | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
It's not only the energy markets that threaten the 'low inflation' data now encouraging bondholders to keep buying... The published inflation data are surprisingly unsophisticated in so far as they compare current prices with a snapshot a year earlier. Just over a year ago, oil was every hedge fund manager's favorite speculation. ...read more


Beached Whales and Economic Omens

Oct 29th, 2007 | By Byron King | Category: Gold, Oil
ON A RECENT TRIP TO CALIFORNIA, I grabbed a copy of the Los Angeles Times that featured a page-one photo of a massive beached whale. The poor critter was a female blue whale. The carcass was about 80 feet long and tilted the scales at nearly 100,000 pounds — making ...read more