Trump Can’t Save Coal
Why Trump isn’t bringing coal jobs back.
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Taking on Trump’s Agenda: Nine Tough Questions for SEC Chair Nominee Jay Clayton on the Eve of His Confirmation Hearings
Risk your rice bowls! My riposte to pearl-clutching white shoe lawyers calling on Trump SEC nominee to denounce Trump visa ban.
Read more...How Russia Is Using Oil Deals To Secure Its Influence In The Middle East
A string of oil deals between Russian oil companies and Arab petrostates have shifted the center of political gravity in the Middle East and North Africa towards Moscow
Read more...Iraq: “Is It Oil?”
Why the Iraq oil problem was not so much access, as in meeting U.S. oil needs, but that U.S. firms had been frozen out of Iraq.
Read more...Biggest Gasoline Glut In 27 Years Could Crash Oil Markets
High gasoline and crude inventories do not bode well for oil prices this year.
Read more...It’s Time To Put Food Policy Back On The Table
The agri-industrial model of huge-scale, corporate-run operations vs. the agri-cultural model community-based family farming
Read more...A Tale of Two Countries: Nigeria and the U.S.
How the US and Nigeria wound up with increasingly similar systems, such as centralized, presidential-focused politics.
Read more...The Oil Supply Glut Is Here To Stay In 2017
Why oil prices will stay soft this year.
Read more...‘A Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply’: Experts Describe Bayer-Monsanto Merger
Whether or not regulators approve the Bayer-Monsanto merger, these companies will continue their rampage against nature.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Why Hanjin’s Zombie Collapse Won’t Be the Last One
China Containerized Freight Index remains near record low.
Read more...Could a Lithium Shortage De-Rail the Electric Car Boom?
Will lithium be the next plastics?
Read more...Hot Money and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters
A new World Bank paper looks at the interaction between commodity prices and commodity exporters. It’s a story about hot money.
Read more...Michael Hudson: William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything – A Travesty of Financial History Which Bank Lobbyists Will Applaud
Why William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything is unadulterated Austrian twattle.
Read more...The Bears Are Back – Oil Slides On Negative Sentiment
Oil prices have gone wobbly…
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
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