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Just a reminder, I will be on BBC Radio Five Live sometime around noonish tomorrow ET. I will post the links to my BNN piece from last week later today. The topic of today is jobs. There were a number of posts in which economists and media…

Topic of the Day: Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Gulf oil spill likely to reach Florida Keys, Miami, report says - latimes.com Should BP nuke its leaking well? - National Post Scientists confirm Gulf floor is beyond repair and…

WSJ video courtesy of Fox News. Market Watch says: Tropical storm Alex, after crossing the Yucatan Peninsula, is gathering strength over the warm waters off eastern Mexico and could become a hurricane within the next 24 hours, the…

By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey’s Energy Report At first glance, no two individuals could seem more different. The Doctor, middle-aged and balding, could be the very archetype of the college professor. The Dealman is young with…

Link of the day Anadarko Says BP Should Pay for Oil Spill After Being Reckless - Bloomberg.com The Usual Fare Wall Street Reform Could Cost Goldman Sachs Billions - Huffington Post The Economist Off the Deep End on BP and…

Matt Simmons says 120,000 barrels a day are leaking from the hole where the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up in April. He also says scientists cannot detect where the well bore was, so the casing in the hole is gone. Simmons says this…

I will probably be out all morning so posts will be light. But, in the meantime for you double-dip recovery fans I have an old link from last year for you to remind you this has not been a real recovery but a statistical one. …

John is one of the ten most followed writers at Seeking Alpha and a Senior Contributor at TheStreet.com and Real Money. Last week I tried to bracket the cost exposure for BP as a result of the Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and…

By John Lounsbury. Here is some astounding news:  BP PLC (BP) has 97% of the most serious safety violations at U.S. refineries over the past 35 months.  In the very top "egregious" category, BP has 99.9% of all…

I'm going to make a change to the week in review post and talk a little bit about the week that was and how the posts from the past week fit into those events. This was a big week of posting and all of the links in this post are from the…