time.com - 10/11/2008
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A gas price sign is seen at an Exxon station on September 20, 2008 photo in Manassas, Virginia. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER
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We are never happy! Thoughts about oil
Short-Term Trading —
Is Cheaper Oil A Good Thing? (Time) "Just as global demand has begun to slow, millions more barrels of oil a day from new fields have hit the world market. The big oil producers have good reason to be nervous. " "The high price at U.S. gas pumps has pushed both Barack Obama and John McCain into making the development of alternative fuels and electric cars key elements of their campaign platforms. But if gas prices continue to drop, those initiatives might begin to seem unnecessarily costly to many Americans. " Commodities Crash (FT) Trade Deficit and ...
DrumBeat: October 12, 2008
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future —
... it too easy with cheap energy for a century and the cheap part is going to disappear. Quickly. Energy is the ubiquitous part of everything we consume, and liquid fuel is getting scarce.
The easy part is to understand how we got to where we are. The difficult part is predicting how we can possibly manage to make our way out of this one. It will draw on our deepest resolve and wisdom, and probably require a "Copernican" shift in our thinking.
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Is Cheaper Oil A Good Thing?
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Stocks: A Bear Case
portfolio.com 10/25/2008 — If stocks fall, that means they're cheaper than they were. And if they've gotten cheaper, they must be a better investment, right? That's the gist of a blog entry from Jim Surowiecki today.
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Too much of a good thing …
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 12/3/2008 — Is only prudent. As far as I know, nobody has written up the case for a fiscal expansion larger than our best estimate of what's needed to close the looming output gap. So I thought it might be useful to write the obvious down.
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What Will Be The Next Big Thing On The Market
thefinancialblogger.com 10/24/2008 —
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Trading Strategy: Oil Stocks vs Oil
marketsci.wordpress.com 12/30/2008 — This strategy was inspired by the recent Bespoke post Oil Stocks Outperforming Oil in which Bespoke showed the historical ratio between the price of oil stocks and the price of oil itself. I’ve reproduced their graph below.
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A Design for Cheaper Wind Power
technologyreview.com 12/1/2008 — FloDesign Wind Turbine , a spin-off from the aerospace company FloDesign based in Wilbraham, MA, has developed a wind turbine that could generate electricity at half the cost of conventional turbines. The company recently raised $6 million in its ...
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