Brian HicksPosted April 5, 2007
A new path for petroleum is now in the works, as leaders of five southern European nations inked a deal Tuesday to build the so-called Pan-European Oil Pipeline. Not only the planned route is new:...
Brian HicksPosted April 3, 2007
A trickle of freedom came down from above to the world of the iPod and its brethren yesterday as Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his cohorts at the EMI Group announced that they would soon begin offering...
Brian HicksPosted April 3, 2007
Do you remember when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated? Or when the Spanish flu paralyzed the American populace? Then you might recall the last time European equity markets outsized Wall Street...
Keith KohlPosted April 2, 2007
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released an eighty-two page report warning us of the devastating impact of peak oil
Brian HicksPosted March 29, 2007
The rickety house of cards that Alan Greenspan and his mortgage buddies built--one bad loan at a time--took another hit this week. New home sales plummeted 4% in February to their slowest pace in...
Brian HicksPosted March 29, 2007
I often talk in these pages about the increased demand for gold I see as more and more investors realize the instability and enormous risks that exist with fiat currencies and the geopolitical...
Brian HicksPosted March 28, 2007
As I headed out to the suburbs of Santiago last Tuesday to visit the world's first winery to list on the New York Stock Exchange, I expected to have a day of snooty sophistication. But I got a look...
Brian HicksPosted March 27, 2007
In the 1967 film The Graduate, it may have been the shapely legs of Mrs. Robinson that caught the eye of young Ben Braddock, but it was Mr. McGuires sage advice that captured the ears of the...
Luke BurgessPosted March 27, 2007
With gold production in South Africa currently at an 84-year low, mining firms working in the region are scrambling to do everything in their power to boost production and add to their bottom...
Keith KohlPosted March 26, 2007
Over the last few days, Iran has single-handedly pushed oil to a three month record high. And as long as they continue defying the global community, the sky is the limit for oil prices.
Jeff SiegelPosted March 22, 2007
While they're busy patting themselves on the back for hating Exxon and morons who drive Hummers in the city, machete-wielding Nigerians continue to murder.
Brian HicksPosted March 22, 2007
By the time the Bruce Springsteen figured out that there was on, the world of television had radically changed. Those old rabbit-eared three-channel sets had long since gone the way of the...