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Too Much Of A Good Thing: Scotland Gags On Wind Power

Jan 132015

January 13, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:26 am Finance Tagged with: dispatch, redistribute, renewables, Scotland, surplus, turbines, wind power 13 Responses »

Too Much Of A Good Thing: Scotland Gags On Wind Power

DPC Market Street from Montgomery Street, San Francisco, after the earthquake 1906 Filed under Be Careful What You Wish For, once again here’s our friend Euan Mearns, this time on how well-intentioned green initiatives may bankrupt and eviscerate entire nations. Euan’s site is Energy Matters. Euan Mearns: I last looked into the details and consequences of Scottish energy policy in the pre-referendum post Scotch on the ROCs. The expansion of Scottish renewables is progressing at breakneck speed and the purpose

At Last The ‘Experts’ Wake Up To Oil

Jan 122015

January 12, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:14 pm Finance Tagged with: analysts, blogosphere, experts, Goldman, losses, oil prices, predictions 11 Responses »

DPC Chicago & Alton Railroad, Joliet, Illinois 1901 Boy, did the ‘experts’ and ‘analysts’ drop the ball on this one, or what’s the story. Only today, Goldman’s highly paid analysts admitted they’ve been dead wrong from months, that their prediction that OPEC would cut production will not happen, and that therefore oil may go as low as $40. Anyone have any idea what that miss has cost Goldman’s clients? And now of course other ‘experts’ – prone to herd behavior

Debt Rattle January 12 2015

Jan 122015

January 12, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:34 am Finance Tagged with: austerity, ECB, Greece, Greenland, Grexit, oil, QE, Samaras, Shale 1 Response »

DPC Pere Marquette transfer boat 18 passing State Street bridge Chicago River 1901 • Why Falling Oil Prices Won’t Delay Fed Rate Increases (MarketWatch) • Goldman Sees Need for $40 Oil as OPEC Cut Forecast Abandoned (Bloomberg) • UK Oil Firms Warn Osborne: Without Big Tax Cuts We Are Doomed (Telegraph) • As Oil Plummets, How Much Pain Still Looms For US Energy Firms? (Reuters) • Oil’s Plunge Wipes Out S&P 500 Earnings (Bloomberg) • How Falling Gasoline Prices Are

The Value of Wealth

Jan 112015

January 11, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:22 pm Finance Tagged with: Charlie Hebdo, empathy, France, money, politics, Uruguay, wealth 6 Responses »

Ann Rosener Reconditioning spark plugs, Melrose Park Buick plant, Chicago 1942 We need to do a lot more thinking, and take a far more critical look at ourselves, than we do at present. We’re not even playing it safe, we’re only playing it easy. And that’s just not enough. The marches in Paris and numerous other cities today were attended by people who mean well, but who should ask themselves if they want to be part of what was predictably

Debt Rattle January 11 2015

Jan 112015

January 11, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:58 am Finance Tagged with: Charlie Hebdo, default, deflation, legal challenges, subprime, Ukraine, US equities, yen 4 Responses »

DPC Sloss City furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama 1906 • Foreign Ownership Of US Equities Hits 69-Year High (MarketWatch) • US Retakes the Helm of the Global Economy (Bloomberg) • Fed’s Lockhart Says Jobs Report No Reason to Raise Rates Sooner (Bloomberg) • Legal Challenge Shows Rocky Path To ECB Money-Printing (Reuters) • Voices Join Greek Left’s Call for a New Deal on Debt (NY Times) • Anxiety Rises Over Eurozone’s Falling Prices (Observer) • Spectre Of Deflation Horrifies Bankers, But Japan

Debt Rattle January 10 2015

Jan 102015

January 10, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:36 am Finance Tagged with: Anonymous, Charlie Hebdo, jobs, junk, oil, Russia, supertanker 2 Responses »

DPC “Steamer loading grain from floating elevator, New Orleans 1906 • Global Economy On The Verge Of A Once-in-a-Generation Transformation (Telegraph) • Oil Derivatives Explosion Double 2008 Sub-Prime Crisis (ETF Daily News) • Energy Stocks Brace For Many Quarters Of Earnings Pressure (MarketWatch) • Don’t Bank on Oil Rebound Says Fund That Foresaw Collapse (Bloomberg) • Oil Glut Spurs Top Traders To Book Supertankers For Storage At Sea (Reuters) • The Oil Industry Still Managed To Add Jobs In December

Price Discovery and Emerging Markets

Jan 092015

January 9, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:48 pm Finance Tagged with: China, emerging economies, Fed, Je Suis Charlie, Main Street, oil, rate hike 5 Responses »

DPC Boston and Maine Railroad depot, Riley Plaza, Salem, MA 1910 I got to admit, Paris and Charlie have thrown me off a bit. Can’t be just me who noticed how well the French CAC 40 was doing since Charlie Hebdo got shot, can it? Up some 2%, I don’t quite recall, Wednesday, the day of the attack, and 3.59% yesterday. Doesn’t that strike you as odd? It did me. It’s maybe the perfect example of how alienated the financial

Debt Rattle January 9 2015

Jan 092015

January 9, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:01 pm Finance Tagged with: bond purchases, China, deflation, ECB, euro, Greece, OPEC 2 Responses »

DPC Union Station, Worcester, Massachusetts 1906 • No Chance Of OPEC Output Cut, Even After Oil Dips Below $50 (Reuters) • There’s No Telling How Low Oil Prices Could Go (Bloomberg) • Why OPEC Is Talking Oil Down Not Up (Bloomberg) • Oil Taxes Tempt Recession-Scarred U.S. States as Prices Plummet (Bloomberg) • ECB Said to Study Bond-Purchase Models Up to $590 Billion (Bloomberg) • Euro Tests Low Last Seen At Its Birth In 1999 (CNBC) • Europe Could Face

Debt Rattle January 8 2015

Jan 082015

January 8, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:41 am Finance Tagged with: Abenomics, antibiotics, Charlie Hebdo, deflation, euro, fossil fuels, Greece, paycheck, Ron Paul 17 Responses »

DPC Old Absinthe House, bar, New Orleans 1906 • Most Americans Are One Paycheck Away From The Street (MarketWatch) • Ron Paul On Paris Attack: Bad Foreign Policy ‘Invites Retaliation’ (Breitbart) • Why Oil Will Go Even Lower (CNBC) • The Worrying Math From US Shale Plays (Ron Patterson) • White House Doesn’t Feel Pressure To Expand US Crude Exports (Reuters) • Oil Investors Pour Most Money Into Funds in 4 Years (Bloomberg) • World’s Best Forecaster Targets Euro-Dollar Parity

I Follow Charlie

Jan 072015

January 7, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:00 pm Finance Tagged with: Charlie Hebdo, EU, France, Muslim, NATO, US 11 Responses »

French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s website now shows the image above. In French, Je Suis Charlie doesn’t only translate as I Am Charlie, but also as I Follow Charlie. Let’s. And let’s not allow the US and all the other western governments to blemish the memories of those who were killed today by using their deaths to promote empty slogans about liberty. Because that’s not what Charlie Hebdo stood for, empty slogans. There’s a long-running gag in the Anglo world that

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