Conference notes and comments from Nataxis Bleichroeder
Here are some of the things that were discussed.
Backlash against coal seam gas
At least in Canada. They have even bigger plans in Australia that are already under some pressure because of falling energy prices and tight credit..
What’s next?
Rising to the occasion, it doesn’t happen often, but some politicians do while most others have fallen by the wayside, reacting haphazerdly and being totally overwhelmed and ruled by events. […]
How about this for a market based solution!
The US government, after much dithering and wasting much time, finally comes up with the right solutions (although perhaps not in sufficient quantity, the jury is still out on that), […]
Market fundamentalism is a belief
It’s the main thing that got us into trouble. Unfortunately, market solutions do not seem remotely viable. Pragmatism is needed now, just figure something out that works. This seems to […]
LNG projects in trouble
We’ve written earlier (here) how falling energy prices and (especially) tighter credit is creating problems building new energy capacity. We also wrote that this can only set us up for […]
Chesapeake Energy
These didn’t have a good time of late, and neither had it’s CEO Aubrey McClendon. What’s going on? Most of it is not hard to guess, but there are a […]
Europe leads, with $2 trillion..
Not only do they take the right measures, They do it with quantities unmatched across the pond. We remarked earlier, it doesn’t happen often when Europe takes the lead in […]
The early signs are encouraging
We told you saving the financial system from disaster isn’t necessarily rocket science. Plans in Europe are being implemented mostly according to the UK way, which is the right way. […]
Those frozen money markets
If you wanted to know a bit more about the mechanics of those frozen money markets, there are worse places to start but here. The article also explains the problems […]