Commodities
Peak Oil – The End Of The Oil Era
Oil surpassing $90.00 per barrel and Peak Oil is here. For those of you who have never heard the term, it is the most important two words in an oil trader’s life. Peak oil referrers to the fact that this world of ours, as big as it is, holds a limited amount of oil. Over […]
Uranium Mining – Nuclear Power
Your fearless editor took a secretive trip a few weeks ago. My intention was to uncover some long hidden assets that have been ignored for more than 30 years. The area I visited was quite remote, and the trek to get there took over 7 hours by car. In the end I was glad I […]
US Dollar And Price Of Oil Directly Linked
Oil Prices reached new highs this week, driven higher by concerns over additional conflicts in the Middle East, and specifically by recent nuclear announcements made by Iran. Also contributing to the unsettling nature of the market is the saber rattling by Turkey about potential military moves into Iraq. This news flow is clearly an external factor that will continue to […]
Energy Resources – Uranium and Nuclear Power
As you know, I spent a considerable amount of time working in the alternative energy industry as an investment banker. I had the opportunity to look at and analyze projects and look at new technologies that were so early stage that most experts had never heard of them. I also had the opportunity to learn […]
Ethanol – Inflation
Food. Like clockwork you and I sit down to 3 and sometimes more meals every day. The desire to feed our rumbling bellies is intuitive. You don’t need to think about being hungry, just like you don’t need to think to have your heart beat! As I sat down to dinner last night at a […]
Uranium Investing
Today, Uranium surpassed the mythical $100 per pound level based upon continued supply concerns. Apparently one of Australia’s largest uranium mines was partially flooded, reducing the potential for supply into the market. Just six months earlier one of Canada’s largest mines – the Cigar Lake uranium mine, which was expected to produce about 15% of […]
Carbon Fiber
I love to read. No surprise here, and my topic of choice is typically business or finance related. I’m sure you are cut from the same cloth, also finding a high level of interest in the various newspapers, magazines, and blogs out there focused on the financial world (otherwise you probably wouldn’t be reading this!) An […]
