Mr. Market Gets It Wrong Again
Now do you want to hear some real bullishness? Crude has fallen so far, so fast, that we could see a snap-back rally drive it to $62 … $77 … heck, even $90 is possible! — Sean Brodrick, from How
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Name: Dave Cohen
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Bio: Dave Cohen is a weekly columnist for ASPO-USA. His commentaries cover a wide variety of subjects, including the global economy, the oil markets, fossil fuel resources as they pertain to economic growth, and global warming. Dave was writing search engine software before he gave up on the software industry in 2005. Dave has a M.A. in theoretical linguistics and was working on a Ph.D. before leaving The University of Texas in 1985 to do research in Artificial Intelligence.
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A Resurgence In China?
The dysfunctional symbiosis between the two countries should be a familiar story by now: Americans consume more than they produce, the Chinese produce more than they consume. Americans are spendthrift, the Chinese are frugal. The Chinese make the stuff Americans buy. Americans run large trade deficits, while the Chinese have a large trade surplus. The Chinese manipulate the value of the Renminbi (the Yuan) to keep the imbalance going. The Chinese buy our debt but will not abandon the dollar…
The Radical Hypothesis
Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose — an old saying And
It’s Not Black Or White
2009:H2: [We have] a cyclical bull market as the economy stabilizes and OPEC maintains cuts to draw inventories to 10-year average levels. We are raising
A Shale Gas Boom?
But I think you also have to be impressed by the credulity of the people who invested and the desperation and almost the laziness—the lack of due diligence
Bad Signs, New Bubbles
Starting with the tulip bulb mania in the 1630s, bubble after speculative bubble has been erased from the popular memory: the South Sea bubble in the early
Peak Oil = Peak Demand?
I think it would be a good idea — Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western Civilization Captain Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find
The Decline of the American Empire
[T]he decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction
Obama Tackles the Liquid Fuels Problem
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. It is easier to deplore the fate, than to describe the actual condition, of Corsica The principal
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The Reign Of Error
We had to burn the village in order to save it —Vietnam War quote To be is to do —Socrates To do is to be —Jean-Paul Sartre Do be do be do… —Frank Sinatra The fur is flying on the climate
