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Oil and the Economy: Where are We Headed in 2015-16?
Oil and the Economy: Where are We Headed in 2015-16? The price of oil is down. How should we expect the economy to perform in 2015 and 2016? Newspapers in the United States seem to emphasize the positive aspects of the drop in prices. I have written Ten Reasons Why High Oil Prices are a Problem. If […]
Resource Insights: Five energy surprises for 2015: The possible and the improbable
Resource Insights: Five energy surprises for 2015: The possible and the improbable. The coming year is likely to be as full of surprises in the field of energy as 2014 was. We just don’t know which surprises! I am not predicting that any of the following will happen, and they will be surprises to most […]
Falling Oil Prices Could Rock Canada’s Politics: Expert | The Tyee
Falling Oil Prices Could Rock Canada’s Politics: Expert | The Tyee. What do the plummeting oil prices tell us not only about our near term economic future in Canada, but the political fragility of the world’s petro states? If Canada fully joins the petro state club, as our prime minister and his party desire, is […]
More To Ruble’s Collapse Than Meets The Eye
More To Ruble’s Collapse Than Meets The Eye. The ruble is dying, and fast. In what is now being dubbed ‘Black Monday’ the ruble’s value to the dollar dropped nearly 15 percent. Tuesday brought no respite and the ruble fell another 10 percent. The ruble’s collapse follows a similar – though by no means as […]
Crash-O-Matic Finance | KUNSTLER
Crash-O-Matic Finance | KUNSTLER. “Oil prices have dropped $50 a barrel. That may not sound like much. But when you take $107 and you take $57, that’s almost a 47 percent decline…!” –James Puplava, The Financial Sense News Network May not sound like much? I guess when you hunker down in the lab with the […]
US Shale Under Pressure From More Than Just Low Prices
US Shale Under Pressure From More Than Just Low Prices. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has come full circle in Denton, Texas after a controversial ban on the practice entered into effect on Tuesday. Denton is one of several cities located on top of the massive Barnett shale formation, regarded as the birthplace of modern fracking. […]
Epsilon Theory – Salient Partners | Signs and Portents
Epsilon Theory – Salient Partners | Signs and Portents. Like the criminals that Bruce Wayne fought as Batman, we investors are a superstitious, cowardly lot. We are constantly ascribing way too much import to this sign or that sign, constantly freaking out over the meaning and significance of this market event or that market event. […]
Oil-Producing Countries’ Currencies Are Getting Crushed | Zero Hedge
Oil-Producing Countries’ Currencies Are Getting Crushed | Zero Hedge. While most people’s attention has been focused on the demise of the Russian Ruble this year, since the June highs in Crude Oil, the oil-producing nations of the world have seen their currencies devalue rapidly. From Brazil to Nigeria and Algeria, the impact of lower oil revenues […]
Why Environmentalists Love Plummeting Oil Prices
Why Environmentalists Love Plummeting Oil Prices. NEW YORK — Deepwater drilling rigs are sitting idle. Fracking plans are being scaled back. Enormous new projects to squeeze oil out of the oilsands of Canada are being shelved. Maybe low oil prices aren’t so bad for the environment after all. The global price of oil has plummeted […]
Will US Shale Oil Undermine Its Own Success?
Will US Shale Oil Undermine Its Own Success?. The US shale revolution has remarkably influenced global energy markets over the past five years. Can falling oil prices tarnish the extraordinary success of hydraulic fracturing in the US and turn it into a victim of its own success? The continuous fall in oil prices over the […]
Early Signs Of A Pullback In Drilling Activity
Early Signs Of A Pullback In Drilling Activity. With oil prices low and showing no sign of an immediate rebound, the industry is beginning to pull back on spending. Oil prices have dropped around 30 percent since summer highs, raising fears among producers across the globe. Yet, many oil majors are relatively diversified, with large holdings downstream. […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: The collapse of oil prices and energy security in Europe
RESOURCE CRISIS: The collapse of oil prices and energy security in Europe. This is a written version of the brief talk I gave at the hearing of the EU parliament on energy security in Brussels on Nov 5, 2014. It is not a transcription, but a shortened version that tries to maintain the substance of what I […]
Oil Price Slide – No Good Way Out | Our Finite World
Oil Price Slide – No Good Way Out | Our Finite World. The world is in a dangerous place now. A large share of oil sellers need the revenue from oil sales. They have to continue producing, regardless of how low oil prices go unless they are stopped by bankruptcy, revolution, or something else that gives them […]
Resource Insights: Is there really an oil glut?
Resource Insights: Is there really an oil glut?. Back in March 1999 “The Economist” magazine carried a cover photo of two men drenched in oil as they attempted to close a faulty valve that was spraying a huge stream of crude skyward. Over the photo was the headline: “Drowning in oil.” At the time it really did […]
OPEC Chief Warns Against Oil Price Panic
OPEC Chief Warns Against Oil Price Panic. OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem el-Badri says he doesn’t expect demand for the cartel’s oil or its production levels to change in the coming year, and he is urging member states not to be alarmed by oil’s current low prices. “Don’t panic,” el-Badri said Oct. 29 at an impromptu news conference […]
