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    • Thu Oct 16th 10:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      China's Shrewd Long-Term Oil Plan: What America Can Learn
      We must get our economy off of imported energy before we go bankrupt and China and the OPEC states own us. They will be in a position to pick up the pieces of our failed (non-existent) energy policy at 1% on the dollar. We are heading toward 30% now.

      What ever happened at those "secret" Cheney energy policy meetings?

      Were they so mesmerized by the Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Wolf...
      IRAQ BS that they failed to secure our real national interests???
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    • Wed Jun 11th 17:02 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      BP CEO: Three Oil Myths
      When OPEC starts to price oil in EUROs, we will see the real extent of our lack of strategic planning to generate more energy independent of oil and gas.

      The alternatives have been mostly ignored by government policy and investment compared with their long-term critical importance.

      Not only are we setting ourselves up for energy starvation and bankruptcy, we are ignoring the opportunity to become leaders in the new energy technologies, jobs and profitable investments which the entire world will need in the near future.

      We need to transform our economy to generate more GDP$$$
      using much less oil/gas. This is an immediate strategy thrust which will require a "Marshall Plan" or a "Moon Shot" level of priority.

      Our economic/political system in which entrenched interests seek to forestall their inevitable decline with subsidy treatment has been a major source in our nation's failure to achieve real progress in many areas. In our myopia, we have also failed to notice that other nation's have moved ahead of us in many areas.

      We need to think globally and act in our own interests as a nation, rather than to adopt the policies of the entrenched interests who spend so freely in D.C. to maintain their living standards by compromising ours.
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    • Thu Jun 5th 16:13 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      GM Shifts Into Reverse, But Can It Catch Toyota?
      GM's success in China and its failure in the USA will result in a buyout of GM by Chinese investors and a wholesale movement of management and production to China.

      This is the best way for GM to survive and for China to use its hoard of US Dollars.
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    • Thu Apr 10th 17:14 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      35 Stocks That Ben Graham Would Like Here
      Graham, Dodd & Cottle + Roger F.Murray would add a quality of management component to these metrics, such as the ability to accurately predict and control EPS. I don't think there was much management forecasting back in their days.

      A company with good management systems and controls has great value to the investor. The banks failed this BIG TIME. I think their focus on "retail" banking was at the expense of the required focus on due dilligence in their investments. I think many bank managers do not understand the investment side of their business and this had led to a massive corruption of the capital markets.
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    • Wed Apr 9th 13:57 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      BP Could Lose $20 Billion to Gazprom
      Anyone who thinks that Gazprom shareholders will get a benefit from the take-over from BP is kidding themselves.

      Gazprom is not operated for the benefit of shareholders, it is a creature of the Russian Gov't which will find a way to reap the benefits before the shareholders do. Buy Gazprom at your peril!
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    • Wed Apr 2nd 16:12 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Potash as Ash Can
      More people, higher per-capita income, more & better food will
      drive agriculture - seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, farm equipment - will all do very well in the long-term. Near-term the market is very volatile because of the financial markets and their possible impact on per-capita income. This is a bump in the road for the global economy. Everyone wants to enjoy good food and most will work hard for it. Modern farming technologies will be applied to satisfy the rapidly increasing demand for the forseeable future.
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    • Mon Mar 17th 14:10 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Goldman's $200 Oil Call and the Hurricane Premium Theory
      What's $12 Billion a month on IRAQ when you are $9 TRILLION in debt???

      The "Bush/Cheney Economy" will persist for a generation, no matter who wins the next election. The USA has ceased to be a capitalist economy. The capital is now in the hands of foreigners who know how to save. Now they will wait until they can bottom-fish.

      The US Government will no longer be able to tell China(and others) not to invest in American companies because this will be tantamount to suspending the convertability of the Dollar and lead to a useless $$$currency faster than current policies. This will prompt most to insist in payment in EUROS in order to protect themselves from our monetizing the US Federal Debt with emergency
      monetary and fiscal bailouts of firms who don't know the meaning of "due dilligence".
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