Bit of a dry spell lately, but still a few worthwhile comments..
Entries from March 2009
InterOil from the boards 11, March 25
March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: IOC · The best from the boards
Remarkable! 7
March 25th, 2009 · No Comments
The Kindle already surpassed, who needs fiber optic cables into the home, explaining how the Geithner plan works, the real forces behind women’s liberation, and better cut down on that red meat consumption, amongst other things..
Tags: Remarkable
Could Krugman be wrong?
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This is actually a case where we hope so, but Brad DeLong, himself a respectable economics professor and Krugman admirer seems to think Krugman is too critical of the Geithner plan.
Tags: Credit Crisis · Public Policy
Is the political system captured by big finance?
March 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
For a year, we’ve argued that sloppy or downright bad regulation, brought by what we called market fundamentalism (the belief that markets regulate themselves) has been the mayor reason behind the crisis. Some go further than that, a lot further…
Tags: Credit Crisis · Public Policy
The biggest natural gas well in the world..
March 23rd, 2009 · 8 Comments
InterOil (IOC) is a Canadian integrated (exploration assets, refinery, near distribution monopoly) located in Papua New Guinea (PNG). After having struck two earlier profusely flowing natural gas and liquids wells (flowing at 102 and 105MMcf/d respectively), they hit an absolute killer with Antelope1, which flowed at a whopping 382MMcf/d..
Tags: IOC
Temporary bank nationalizations, here’s another reason why
March 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
We have provided plenty of reasons why this would be the most efficient policy option, but just to find out and control what is happening with all that bail-out money would be reason enough. Obama is getting this more wrong by the minute.
Tags: Credit Crisis · Public Policy
Implicating abusive naked shorting in the financial crisis
March 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
The evidence increases that naked shorting has played at least some role in the market fall last year. Four our featured company, InterOil, this is also very important, because it has been on the receiving end of this as well…
Tags: Short Selling
Bank plan falls short again..
March 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
After all the right moves from the Fed, the Geithner plan is, well, not so good…
Tags: Credit Crisis · Public Policy
This really is curious..
March 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Despite the crisis of unprecedented magnitude, it’s politics as usual in the US..
Tags: Public Policy
Dollar down, more to go?
March 20th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s a law of supply and demand, if more are created so supply increases, it’s price should move down, right? Well…
Tags: currencies · Public Policy
