Month July 2008

Gary Dvorchak at TheStreet.com says maybe so. So far, the Fed has decided that allowing lenders to absorb all of the losses they created would wipe out our financial system, so by necessity, the losses are going to be borne…

Bruce Sterling on the recent midwest floods. In order to imagine food prices going down, you have to hypothesize weather problems receding and fuel prices lower. And if ending a war is supposed to patch that, you have to imagine…

Earth2Tech details the scenarios that $7 gas would create, which include stagflation, fewer cars on the road, and families spending more on gas than food. While this would eventually lead to less pollution and carbon in the air, the getting…

Then why did the number of open contracts peak a year ago? A speculative binge should result in more contracts, not less.

If so, then why signal it in advance so many times? While I suppose the US could use Israel as a proxy for such an unprovoked attack, it would be disastrous both short-term and long-term. The price of oil would…