Broad Oak Magazine

In the Telegraph and other papers: Mr Straw also claims today that Mr Brown had nothing to do with his change of heart over the PTA [Priso...

Denninger: ... a handful of banks, most specifically Goldman Sachs, constitute the majority of NYSE trading volume... This "back and f...

Last week , I suggested that we could be entering an era of competitive currency devaluation. Now, Mish sees it happening in Russia, Mexico...

Jesse argues that we're not yet in a deflation, technically speaking; it's "the transfer of wealth from one asset class to anot...

See the comment in Brad Setser's blog - Brazil and Argentina are already finding other ways to pay each other, Russia may deal in euros....

After the recent oil price rises, is shale oil now economically viable, or not ?

Karl Denninger gives his interpretation of recent events: hedge funds have been caught out badly betting against oil and the dollar, and the...

Russell Roberts at Cafe Hayek discusses a spam email from United Airlines, which blames speculation for much of the high price of oil. Natu...

Bill Cara: "the new reality today is that Crude Oil at about $90-$100 and Gold at $820 is required to stave a total collapse of securit...

Lead story in The Grumbler today: " Police are forced to cut frontline jobs to save on fuel cost ". Of course, there's always ...

Found on InflationData.com Unbidden, The Time Warp came to me (though I had thought the word "shimmy" appeared in the lyrics). An...

The Mogambo Guru (too long absent from these pages) points out that a major factor in the increase in the price of oil, is simply the declin...

Reading "The Grumbler" today, I was struck by Rosie Boycott's article on our vulnerability to oil and food shortages, particu...

Tom Bower pooh-poohs "Peak Oil" claims in the Daily Mail, saying there's several times more to come out of the ground than has...

Nathan Lewis reminds us how, when President Nixon cut the dollar's link to gold in 1971, OPEC protected the real value of its oil with p...

Stuart Staniford takes a point I've read recently in Vernon Coleman's "Oil Apocalypse", about biofuels threatening food su...

Fiat currency is elastic - it stetches and contracts according to the demand for, and supply of, credit. So it is an unreliable tool to meas...

(Daily Mail story ) "Business was off the agenda" said the Telegraph yesterday , about the Saudis' visit to Britain. I'm n...

I'm a bit behind on my listening to Financial Sense Newshour , but as ever, the issues we're talking about aren't momentary. Jim...

If the gold bugs are right, why hasn't gold rocketed already? Maybe this presentation by Frank Veneroso, dated May 2001, explains it. I...