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| Is the Economic Summer Coming |
| Cycles, cycles everywhere. We’ve already discussed the current state of the U.S. business cycle, arguing that the expansion should last for a while, although it is more advanced than in Europe. However, business cycles aren’t the only creatures living in an economic zoo. They are simply the most popular within the modern macroeconomics. The post-war business cycles lasted, on average, almost 6 years. But economists distinguished also shorter cycles, called Kitchin inventory cycles, which are belSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Capturing a Cacophony of Voices |
| My 2017 book, Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta's oil sands, its book of the year. I'm quite honoured. Here is an intro to the oil sands, based on information from that book.
By Peter McKenzie-Brown
Hudson’s Bay
Company explorer James Knight made a seminal observation in his diary on
June 27, 1715. On an expedition into today’s Alberta, he wrote that he had
learned from Cree “Home Guard” Indigenous people, local trappers and factory
provisioners “abt the Great RTuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| New Phase in "America First" Trade Policy |
| Heaven forbid consumers in the US get a break. Trump wants none of it.
I have idea. Let's raise prices and at the same time kill anything clean energy has going for it.
We call this policy "America First".
The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. Sets New Trade Tariffs, Signaling New Phase in ‘America First’ Policy.
President Donald Trump slapped steep tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, kicking off his second year in office by showing he’s ready to start implementing his longThursday, January 25, 2018 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| New Phase in "America First" Blatant Tariff Stupidity |
| Heaven forbid consumers in the US get a break. Trump wants none of it.
I have idea. Let's raise prices and at the same time kill anything clean energy has going for it.
We call this policy "America First".
The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. Sets New Trade Tariffs, Signaling New Phase in ‘America First’ Policy.
President Donald Trump slapped steep tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, kicking off his second year in office by showing he’s ready to start implementing his longTuesday, January 23, 2018 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Why Lithium, Why Now |
| Our ‘who cares’ attitude towards pollution and habitat destruction are all increasing what were once tolerable pressures towards, and sometimes already beyond, the breaking point in ecosystems all over the world.
Fortunately, people, governments, and corporations are waking up and trying to reduce their carbon footprint.
Our attitude towards environmental issues is changing, we are responding to potentially catastrophic climate change and to global (and all the way down to the miMonday, October 2, 2017 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Themes Matter |
| When looking for an investment your method should involve a thematic approach, studying global long term dominant trends. Then study the different sectors in order to select the one that is going to match up well with what you think is the soon to be overriding theme. This is top down investing.
The second part of your search for the dominant investment is a bottom up approach. This is where you find individual companies in the specific sector you have chosen to invest in.
So what is that invMonday, June 12, 2017 |
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 | Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| 5 Clean Energy Innovations That Could Transform Our World |
| Innovations in energy storage, smart grid, and electricity generation technologies will affect every part of the source-to-consumer supply chain for powering the planet. Energy storage tech improves the viabilities of wind and solar power – two energy sources that remain cost prohibitive due to expenses related to batteries that would store generated energy. Smart grids will regulate the movement of energy throughout a city or state, insuring the areas from crippling blackouts. Developments in eWednesday, May 10, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
Musktopia Here We Come!  |
| It ought to be sign of just how delusional the nation is these days that Elon Musk of Tesla and Space X is taken seriously. Musk continues to dangle his fantasy of travel to Mars before a country that can barely get its shit together on Planet Earth, and the Tesla car represents one of the main reasons for it — namely, that we’ll do anything to preserve, maintain, and defend our addiction to incessant and pointless motoring (and nothing to devise a saner living arrangement).
Even people with IvyMonday, April 3, 2017 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Major Supply Shortage: Critical Minerals Igniting Bull Market Mania |
| Collapsing oil prices are only the beginning as fossil fuels are turning into a historic relic, says Kenneth Ameduri, chief editor of Crush the Street. He discusses two commodities whose demand he expects to skyrocket as the world shifts to cleaner energy.
Elon Musk is at the forefront of this movement with his innovations that are turning fossil fuels into a historic relic. Some say oil's true price per barrel with the "supply glut" that exists and the Saturday, March 25, 2017 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Major Supply Shortage: Critical Minerals Igniting Bull Market Mania |
| Collapsing oil prices are only the beginning as fossil fuels are turning into a historic relic, says Kenneth Ameduri, chief editor of Crush the Street. He discusses two commodities whose demand he expects to skyrocket as the world shifts to cleaner energy.
Elon Musk is at the forefront of this movement with his innovations that are turning fossil fuels into a historic relic. Some say oil's true price per barrel with the "supply glut" that exists and theFriday, March 24, 2017 |
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| The Energy Report |
| As Uranium Price Turns, Insiders Stock Up on Energy Fuels |
| Analysts watching the uranium market agree that as prices for U3O8 turn around, Energy Fuels' U.S.-based assets, including its conventional and in-situ recovery operations at the Canyon Mine and Nichols Ranch, respectively, make it a good bet for investors. The company's management team and directors must agree because they have upped their share ownership in anticipation.
In a letter to shareholders that Energy Fuels Inc. (EFR:TSX; UUUThursday, March 23, 2017 |
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| The Gold Report |
| Alkane in Position to Benefit from Hafnium Demand Rise |
| Hafnium may not be a household word, but demand for the element is growing, and Alkane Resources is gearing up to take advantage.
Although hafnium is used in electronics, in alloys for aerospace applications and in control rods for nuclear reactors, the market is quite small. Hafnium is not rare, but it is not found alone in nature. It is almost always found with zirconium and must be separated from it. Only about 70 tons are produced each year, but demThursday, March 2, 2017 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Manganese X Energy Corp. Is Energy Storage Critical |
| China controls almost 100% of the world’s supply of electrolytic manganese metal (EMM)
The three factors are climate change, renewable energy and U.S. Foreign Policy.
With heated rhetoric coming from both sides, and both countries navies flexing muscles in the disputed waters of the South and East China Seas, China and the U.S. seem to be on a collision course.
However both the 1943 Cairo Declaration and 1945 Potsdam Declaration state that Japan will return to China all Chinese terTuesday, February 14, 2017 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Manganese X Energy Corp. |
| Richard Mills
The US government has classified manganese as a strategic metal. Manganese has no substitute metals in its many steel and alloying applications and has itself (EMM) become a substitute for other more expensive metals in certain alloys. Manganese can also replace the more costly nickel alloy used in stainless steel.
Electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) is a refined manganese product produced through electrolysis of a manganese rich solution. Manganeseis NOT mined in North AmeriSaturday, February 11, 2017 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Manganese Is Energy Critical |
| In 1917 the War Industries Board (WIB) noted that the United States was deficient in certain minerals of great importance to war making and self defense. A pre-World War II list of materials contained a total of 29 materials: 14 were strategic materials that ‘must be based entirely or in substantial part on sources outside the United States.’ There were 15 critical materials that would be easier to source, perhaps even domestically, than the strategic materials.
The 1939 Strategic Materials ASaturday, February 4, 2017 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| The Missing Link |
| Pollution and climate change are key drivers for the global adoption of clean renewable energy – solar, wind and tidal – but the high cost of solar installations and the lack of economically efficient storage batteries has held back widespread adoption of clean renewable energy.
Climate change
In the past million years, the Earth has experienced a major ice age about every 100,000 years.
This temporary reprieve from the ice we are now experiencing is called an interglacial period - theFriday, February 3, 2017 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| Vermont Green Line and Citizens Energy Announce Partnership |
| News Releases
August 25, 2016
WALTHAM, Mass. - August 25, 2016 - The Vermont Green Line today announced a new partnership with Citizens Energy Corporation to assist low-income Vermont residents with their energy needs.
By becoming an owner in the Vermont Green Line alongside National Grid, Citizens Energy will finance its share of the line and use its profits, in concert with the project partners, to help working families and others in need in Vermont.
Citizens Energy partners with utilitThursday, August 25, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| NextEra Energy announces sale of equity units |
| JUNO BEACH, Fla., Aug. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) announced today that it has agreed to sell $1.50 billion of equity units to Goldman, Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse and Mizuho Securities. The transaction is expected to close on Aug. 8, 2016.
Each equity unit will be issued in a stated amount of $50. Each equity unit will consist of a contract to purchase NextEra Energy common stock in the future and a 5 percent undivided beneficial ownership interest in a NextEra EneWednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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