One of the best webinars I’ve ever seen.  Regardless whether you’re an investor or trader, in this video Jack Bouroudjian covers the major interacting forces acting on the market such as economic reports, treasuries, and yield curve.  In addition, Bouroudjian shows us incredible insight into how the markets are structured, interact with each other, and [...]

Peak Oil Update
World Will Soon Face an Oil Supply Crunch
By Chris Nelder
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Everyone who follows the peak oil story has by now seen some of the editorials that blanketed the press over the last few weeks, attempting to debunk it and disparage its adherents. I responded to the worst of them three weeks [...]

For Green Chip Stocks this week, I respond to the most recent salvos of peak oil deniers including Michael Lynch, Daniel Yergin and Raymond Learsy.
See also a few selected responses from other writers.
Debunking the Peak Oil Debunkers: Lynch, Yergin, Learsy and the Worry-Nots
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double [...]

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First it was Business Week. Then President Obama. Now it is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Speaking before a group of bankers this past weekend in Jackson Hole [...]

For this week’s Energy and Capital column, I consider the recent mega-investment wave in farmland in light of peak oil concerns, and think farmland may be the trade of the century.
Is Farmland the Trade of the Century?
What should a long-term investor invest in when stocks and bonds aren’t working very well?
I’ve been asking that question [...]

Nightly late-night chart review sessions on twitter and Chart.ly.  Follow me on twitter @theEquilibrium.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ) – weekly- just under strong confluence of resistance:major downtrend line+Fib- @WeeklyTA @stevenplace

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (ADR) (NYSE) – stuck in a big range- watch steep uptrend line for short term moves

PetroChina Company Limited (ADR) (NYSE) – bounced on [...]

For this week’s Energy and Capital, I argue that instead of forming climate policy around what comes out of the smokestacks and tailpipes, we should be focusing on what we put into the engines and encouraging renewable energy with incentives like feed-in tariffs.
When it comes to setting policy, we certainly do seem to have a [...]

For my Energy and Capital article last week, I explained the importance of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s new initiative to streamline the approval process for utility scale solar power plants, and looked at some of the exciting projects now under way.
Publishing note: You may have noticed that I am now reposting my Energy and Capital [...]

What caused the sudden and precipitous drop? The economic data, once again, was horrendous: the unexpected drop in last Tuesday’s Conference Board Consumer Confidence report provided the preamble; Thursday’s non-farm payroll number showing the US economy lost some 130,000 more jobs than expected proved to be more than any green-shoot theorist bulls (or more importantly for purposes of the ensuing discussion, supplemental liquidity-providing proprietary program traders) could handle.

In this week’s Energy and Capital article, I review the case for peak fossil fuels and offer seven no-brainer paths to success in the coming renewable energy revolution.
How to Navigate Peak Fossil Fuels. . .And Profit
I have dished out a healthy share of criticism about the paths we are taking into the energy future, so [...]