Brian HicksPosted April 10, 2007
The future is going to be a very scary place. It'll be dark, grim and even foreboding. At least thats the story in a piece published in The Guardian yesterday. There will be information chips...
Keith KohlPosted April 9, 2007
During the next two days, leading natural gas countries are meeting in Doha, Qatar. These countries control roughly 70% of the world's natural gas reserves. But the Gas Exporting Countries Forum...
Brian HicksPosted April 5, 2007
The dark world envisioned by George Orwell took another small step forward yesterday in his merry old English home. And while it's not quite as terrifying as a trip to Room 101 in the Ministry of...
Brian HicksPosted April 5, 2007
Thanks to the relentless efforts of Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-MD) and Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM) and their Congressional Peak Oil Caucus, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has performed a...
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...