We take up the issue of national power and real energy in today’s Daily Reckoning. And we take it up because the fate of nations and the welfare of men and women are directly related to how much sunlight we all get. All power—from the stored solar energy in fossil fuels to the sunlight that makes food grow—comes from energy.
January 30th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 16 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "global warming"
Expect the Great Correction to Wipe Out this Bounce
You’ll recall that the Great Correction seemed to be aiming to put a number of things right. Foremost were the economies of the USA and China.
April 8th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 12 comments | Continued
Defiance at the Fed
Any real recovery would be accompanied by interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve. Instead, the Fed stuck to its guns and butter interest rate. Dan Denning is another step closer to his free beer bet coming off.
March 20th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Debt Drugged
Governments and central banks have managed to engineer some more spin, but only at the expense of piling more debt on top of the already wobbling structure.
March 6th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 2 comments | Continued
My Favorite Energy Plays: Geothermal and Nuclear
“I really like geothermal,” he says. And the US is one of the best places in the world to develop geothermal reservoirs into power-generation facilities. Political consensus in the US is that geothermal is good…
February 11th, 2010 | Chris Mayer | 2 comments | Continued
Another Very Bad Year for American Housing
The other global downer on the newswires comes from the U.S. housing market. New housing starts fell by 4% in December and index of homebuilder confidence fell too. But by far the more alarming news was that the Federal Housing Administration is increasing mortgage insurance premiums, demanding higher credit scores, and requiring larger down payments from new borrowers.
January 21st, 2010 | Dan Denning | 35 comments | Continued
Copenhagen Climate Talks Possibly Sent the Market Higher
The S&P 500 hit a 14-month high overnight. The conventional wisdom is that two news events are responsible. This is probably wrong. But let’s look at both events anyway and see what happened.
The first is that Abu Dhabi extended a $10 billion in financing to debt-distressed Dubai. Hossanah! Remember, Dubai is not Lehman. It’s Bear Stearns.
December 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Global Warming Getting Bad Press
Is the planet heating up? If so, is human activity the cause of it? No one knows. But thousands…millions…of people make their reputations, their careers and their fortunes by promising to do something about it.
December 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 24 comments | Continued
Global Warming Temperatures Falling for the Last 10 Years
Folks in the Rockies are shivering. “Western Montana breaks records,” says a report. Missoula reported a low of 8 degrees yesterday…14 degrees lower than the previous record for this early in the season.
October 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 10 comments | Continued
Unsustainable Energy Trends
I’ve been getting a lot of calls and e-mails from people asking about the falling prices for oil in recent weeks. The immediate explanation is that world economic activity is decelerating. Demand is falling. OPEC announced cuts in output. But the markets still believe that economic decline will trump the ability of OPEC to prop up the price of oil. Enjoy it while it lasts.
November 19th, 2008 | Byron King | 15 comments | Continued
An Old Friend With a New Idea on Global Warming
Global warming is much more of a threat than I thought. Apparently, there is much less dispute in the scientific community on this subject than we thought.
July 18th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 25 comments | Continued
Global Warming and the Children of Israel
Since we have so little market news to report to you, we will take our quest for truth and beauty to other areas: global warming and the children of Israel for example. Both are touchy issues. In Europe, if you say you are skeptical of global warming, they look at you like a lion at a Christian.
May 28th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 8 comments | Continued
