bloomberg.com - 1/7/2009
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Frontline Ltd. , the world’s biggest owner of supertankers, said oil traders want to charter as many as 10 vessels to stockpile crude to take advantage of higher prices later in the year. About 25 supertankers were already hired for storage and there are enquiries for 5 to ...
ritholtz.com - 1/12/2009
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ritholtz.com —
Yesterday’s 60 Minutes had a story on Oil
Speculation. Its not that they said anything wrong, its...
more that they told 10% of the story of the rise and fall of energy prices. Surprisingly thin, it completely missed all of the many other factors ...
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Oil Speculation ?
bloomberg.com - 1/7/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Oil traders are seeking
as many as 10 supertankers to store crude, potentially...
taking the amount hoarded at sea to almost five days of European Union demand, according to Frontline Ltd. , the largest owner of the vessels. About ...
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Oil Traders Seek Another 10 Supertankers for Storage ...
worldchanging.com - 1/14/2009
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worldchanging.com —
The covering of the Cheonggyecheon River and the
building of an elevated freeway over it in the...
1970s represented the height of social progress in Seoul, Korea at the time.This thought, however, was greatly reconsidered thirty years later after the ...
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Choosing What Our Cities Will Look Like in a World ...
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nytimes.com 1/16/2009 — As demand for oil has plunged, companies up and down the energy pipeline are acting in ways that would have been unimaginable until recently. >
Pump It Up —
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"Drill, baby, drill!" was the glibly rapacious chant that came to dominate the oil debate during the presidential race. Now "Tax, baby, tax!" is beginning to define our post-electoral national-energy-policy mood. That tax would be a gas tax, which ...
Lio Olive Oil Slick Pickin’ —
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Putin’s New, Lame Cold War —
The Big Money 1/8/2009
Of all the loan words that the Russians have taken from English, hooligan is one of the most popular. Its origin seems to be a slur based on the Irish last name Houlihan, but the Russians have always taken to the word with gusto, using it far more ...