Jayagopi

Watching the Lehman Fireworks

One thing that I am quite sure will happen is the Lay offs ( could be massive ) either annouced today or whould be silent lay offs over the coming months.

Rescuing Frannie

Conservative Republican Adminstration getting into free market and making a bail out-----things must be getting--- what shall I say- ______ worse.

Why Airline Stocks Are So Often Bad Investments

A bulk of their cost is fuel cost (25-40)% and in hard times when fuel cost goes up, and demand goes down, it increases their operating cost and at the same time reduces revenue.

Should We Listen to Boone Pickens on Oil?

People tend to confuse oil price with the economics of Wind and Solar. They are not that highly correlated because- oil is mainly used as a trasportation fuel though a small percent is used as raw materials for producing plastics. Where as wind and solar produce electricity whose main competitors are coal, nuclear and natural gas.

In the long run what really matters is the price of electricity for wind and solar not the price of oil. Though oil price may have some impact in terms of material cost but in the operations terms only the price of electricity matters.