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by Win Thin Saudi Oil Minister Al-Naimi said that crude oil prices between $70-80 per barrel are “appropriate.”  OPEC Secretary-General el-Badri said his group would add oil output in the event of any supply disruptions, pledging…

Marshall Auerback spoke to BNN's Squeeze Play about the civil unrest in Egypt and what the unrest means for financial markets and the global economy. The most obvious global implications regard the potential for civil unrest elsewhere and…

From today's Breakfast with Dave research note at Gluskin Sheff (highlighting added): An energy policy that truly removes U.S. dependence on foreign oil (shale case, coal, nuclear). A complete rewrite of the tax code that promotes…

I have just finished reviewing Byron Wien's Ten Surprises for 2010. Now, I present you Byron Wien's Ten Surprises for 2011. He is bullish again. Enjoy.   -Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners, today issued his…

This is the third year I have featured the Danish Saxo Bank's outrageous predictions list. They are meant to be true outliers and not actual predictions, so don't expect them to hit 10 for 10 or even 7 for 10. The point of the list is to…

by Lars Schall Folker Hellmeyer, chief analyst at Bremer Landesbank, gave an exclusive interview to chaostheorien.de. Yesterday we ran the first part of that interview with his take on the so called “Currency Wars,”China's role as a…

by David Galland As I write, gold is back in record territory, surging from $1,313 a month ago, to over $1,390 as I write. Paid subscribers to our International Speculator service, which focuses on the junior resource companies – mostly…

By Marin Katusa, Casey’s Energy Opportunities Stop the presses. The United States is no longer the world’s biggest consumer of energy. After topping the energy consumption charts for more than a century, the U.S. has been left behind as…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Unemployment is stuck in a rut. One reason is the tendency to look…

PBS has a great video and article on how dispersants are being used in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blow-out. The video is below. The related article linked at the bottom has another video on using methane to measure the…