Which Presidential Candidates are Most Friendly to the Energy Industry?
A rundown of how nice the various top presidential candidates are likely to be to Big Energy.
Read more...Category Archives: Energy markets
Is the Saudi Market Share Strategy Backfiring?
The Saudis appear to have bitten off more than they can chew.
Read more...The Greenhouse 100
A ranking of the top greenhouse gas producers in the US.
Read more...Office of Financial Research Warns of Corporate Debt Defaults, Particularly Related to Energy Loans, as Stability Risk
Nothing like the downgrades and the prospect of default to focus the mind….
Read more...Ilargi: Square Holes and Currency Pegs
The difficultly of maintaining currency pegs, most important the renminbi and riyal versus the dollar, will put even more stress on financial markets.
Read more...The World Is Not Running Out Of Storage Space For Oil
The implications of the fact that there is still more oil storage capacity for prices.
Read more...US Oil Futures Plunge by Nearly 7%, to $26.55 a Barrel; Stocks Swoon
Oil has ratcheted down again and stocks are getting hammered.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Why the US Should Withdraw From the Middle East
Why it is time for the US to stand down in the Middle East and let local actors take control.
Read more...Michael Klare: Plunging Oil Prices – A Recipe for More War?
Low and generally volatile oil prices are a prescription for more political instability in major oil producing nations.
Read more...2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle
How tight linkages among phenomena, such as oil and commodity prices, and flagging non-elite wages, are about to cause substantial economic disruption.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Welcome to 2016! With Just a Touch of Mayhem for Stocks
Stocks took a beating around the globe on the first day back in 2016. Hopes of a better year start out inauspiciously.
Read more...Dollar Dominance: Deconstructing the Myths and Untangling the Web
It is not dollar hegemony that rules the world, but the global financial system which gives the dollar its place of privilege.
Read more...Private Equity Made Bad Bet on Ships, Hit by Collapse in China Trade
Private equity’s misadventure in ships is yet another proof of both hubris and too much money looking for deals.
Read more...Wolf Richter: America’s Largest Utility Jacks up Rates the Most Since 2006 Despite Total Collapse of Natural Gas Prices
PG&E, America’s biggest utility, is a case study in the power of monopoly and regulatory capture.
Read more...Gaius Publius: It Wasn’t Just Exxon — They All Knew
Exxon was not the only oil major that knew decades ago about global warming and chose to launch an agnotology campaign.
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