In Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future - Posted 6 days ago

John Michael Greer: Barbarism and good brandyThink of it this way. The individual photons that heat the planet Mercury each contain, on average, the s...

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In Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future - Posted 1 week ago

Want the Good Life? Your Neighbors Need It, Too We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. We in th...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 3 weeks ago

There was a great article from Index Universe Wednesday explaining the contango effect for future-based energy ETFs, USO and UNG. Contango is a phenom...

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In Big Picture - Posted 19 weeks ago

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Oct 26 Nov 1, 2009)Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks dow...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 19 weeks ago

This comes via the FT: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday decided to drop the widely used West Texas Intermediate oil contract as the benchmark for pricing its...

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In Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future - Posted 19 weeks ago

Saudi oil policy not hostage to Iran worries BEIRUT - Saudi Arabia might seek to brake any new oil price spike, mainly to protect a fragile global eco...

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In Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future - Posted 19 weeks ago

Saudi oil policy not hostage to Iran worries BEIRUT - Saudi Arabia might seek to brake any new oil price spike, mainly to protect a fragile global eco...

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In The Mess That Greenspan Made - Posted 19 weeks ago

TOP STORIESMove-up Buyers to Get Homebuyer Tax Credit - UPIShell cuts 5,000 jobs as profits tumble - ReutersCIC head warns of asset price bubble - Fin...

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In Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future - Posted 24 weeks ago

The population delusionTHINK of the biggest crowd you've ever been in - perhaps 50,000 in a sports stadium. Just 6 hours from now there will be that m...

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In Big Picture - Posted 26 weeks ago

Michael Martin is a proprietary commodity trader. He is a commodity instructor for the CFA Institute and a frequent lecturer on risk management. Unt...

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