By Dian L. Chu, EconMatters (A Seeking Alpha Exclusive) An April 7 Bloomberg News survey indicated that oil prices may rise on speculation that elections in Nigeria will curb output and the Libyan conflict will halt...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters In early March, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley told NBC that the Administration was considering releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) if it deems the high oil...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter No one agrees what the “fundamental†price of gold is. What’s indisputable is that the price went up by 400% over the past ten years; thus the...
Read MoreBy Edward Harrison “The Fed could announce a federal funds target of 3% but the tsunami of excess reserves now out there swamps any conceivable demand, so the Fed funds rate would be guaranteed to remain stuck at zero. The...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter Along with the emergence of the much heralded “Green Shoots” that must by now be turning into roses (?), has come the sinking realization that (a) just piling debt on debt is not a long-term solution...
Read MoreBy Bob van der Valk Consumer studies by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs suggested a year ago that in order for the Obama administration to meet their target to cut greenhouse...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters The monthly roll cycle starts Tuesday April 5th for Crude Oil with the 4-day rolling of USO positions, the USO is an exchange traded security meant to track movements in the WTI futures contract....
Read MoreBy Russ Winter The IMF has a report out supporting the predictability of my food riot/revolution index. It seems the rocket scientists there equate a 10% increase in global food prices, to a 100% increase in antigovernment...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters There were some interesting developments coming out of Libya that It seems behind the scenes a transitional government is already being put in place, and contracts are being signed for the resumption...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, EconMatters There is a bit of irony here in that the very same banks that taxpayers bailed out, and saved from going completely belly up, are now making you pay once again in the form of higher Oil prices, and...
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