Posts Tagged ‘ oil prices ’

Consequences to Expect if the U.S. Invades Iran

Feb 22nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Oil, Politics
Let's be honest, quite a few Americans love a good war, especially those Americans who have never had to bear witness to one first hand. War is the ultimate tribally vicarious experience. Anyone, even pudgy armchair generals with deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy, can revel in the victories and actions ...read more

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Iran’s Desperate Gamble to Push Oil Up to $200

Jan 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, International, Oil
As this tumultuous and volatile year draws to an end, it's time to turn your thoughts to 2012. What will the new year bring…and what can you do to prepare for it? I've given it a lot of thought, drawing on my decades of market-watching experience. In the end, I came ...read more

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Oil Prices Will Eventually Change Everything Drastically

Mar 9th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
I was plying the interstate highways of New England this weekend — there is no sane way to get from Albany, New York, to the vicinity of Middletown, Connecticut, by public transit — marveling at the vistas of normality all around me: the freeway lanes with their orderly streams of ...read more

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Cheap Oil is Gone, and That’s Good News

Jan 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
Over the next year or two, you will likely find yourself paying a LOT more at the gas pump. Big changes are taking place in the oil industry. With increased global demand and declining supply, easy oil is not so easy anymore. Everything is about to get more expensive. From gasoline ...read more

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Strange Days of Debt, Peak Oil and Stock Rallies

Apr 7th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Even while a wave of reflex nausea washed over America last week, and the unemployment rolls swelled by much more than another half million, the greatest stock market suckers' rally in seventy years pulled in the last of the credulous. These are strange days. The earth is heaving and the ...read more

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A Net-Positive Gas Tax

Mar 23rd, 2009 | By | Category: Energy, Featured, Oil
Richard Lugar, in the February 1 issue of the Washington Post , supported Charles Krauthammerís so-called net-zero gas tax idea .  This net-zero idea is an eminently fair and painless way to combat our looming oil crisis.  What makes the idea so great is that the taxes collected are given ...read more

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The Dollar and Oil Prices

Sep 12th, 2008 | By | Category: Currencies, Oil
I just returned from New York City, where I had a unique perspective on the unfolding event of Hurricane Gustav. I spent Monday and Tuesday of this week as a guest in the studios of the Fox Business Network, at the corner of 47th Street West and Avenue of the ...read more

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Oil Price Retreats

Jul 30th, 2008 | By | Category: Currencies, Oil
On the energy front, we’ve seen several days of declining prices. Oil has led the way, falling from about $146 to $121. Coal and natural gas sold down, as well, as did many energy companies and service firms. So we’ve seen quite a tumble, led by declining oil. But then again, ...read more

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