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The Alpha and the Obama…
This week, the Democratic National Committee holds its convention in Denver, Colorado. Amist the hoopla of Clinton supporters threatening blood in the streets, unpaid vendors clamoring for funds from the DNC, makeshift GTMO’s constructed by the Denver PD, and the veritable circus of coverage I’ve watched today (and we haven’t even gotten to the main [...]
Has the “oil bubble” finally burst?
Back on June 23, I wrote a piece entitled “Why is Crude Oil (and gasoline) so expensive?” Since then, I’ve received quite a few emalis and comments to that piece - many of which essentially chastising me for not adopting the “drill here, drill now” framework as being the main lynchpin to solving US oil [...]
Why is crude oil (and gasoline) so expensive?
I have been getting emails from readers essentially asking me to do a post on oil - why is it so expensive, and what, if anything should be the GOP’s party platform on energy. While energy economics is not my specialty - I do understand commodities markets, and I believe I probably understand better than [...]
Obama to America - I won’t drill…
Sen. Barrack Obama, in addition to wanting to tax the living daylights out of you, has also decided, it is good you pay more for gasoline. Responding to the recent 180 by the President and Sen. McCain on oil exploration, Senator Obama said this:
Offshore drilling would not lower gas prices today. It would not lower [...]
Why does America so love Barrack Obama?
When Sen. Barrack Obama announced his candidacy to rockstar crowds, I shook my head and said, “oh boy - this guy may be the real deal. He may be lightening in a bottle.” My colleagues, some of them democrats, got me to change my initial impression of Obama, telling me how Hillary would ultimately beat [...]
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