Bearish moods seemed to have permanently settled in energy markets. The first and most obvious victim of the nosediving oil prices has been natural gas.
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Silver and Warnings From Exponential Markets
For the past 15 – 40 years, debt and prices in most markets have moved upward, broadly speaking, in exponential trends. See the following log-scale graphs.
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Here’s how fertility rates in the 10 biggest countries are expected to change by 2050
The United Nations Population Division recently released updates to its projections of the future world population. We previously looked at how the world’s population could grow in the next several decades, and at the regional breakdown of that population growth.
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Austin redux: Barbecue, country music and start-ups
There’s plenty to be impressed with upon meeting Austin-based fashion designer Isabella Rose Taylor. She began writing and painting as young as age 4. She launched her own eponymous clothing line at age 10, then graduated high school just a year later. And at age 13, the young prodigy hosted a show at New York Fashion Week, landing her designs in Nordstrom.
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The World’s First Clean Oil Sands Project: An Interview With Dr. Gerald Bailey
After decades of exhaustive attempts to overcome the dirty reputation of oil sands, we finally have an environmentally-friendly and low cost method to tap into these vast resources in the state of Utah—good news both for Mother Nature and all oil and gas investors.
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Could Oil Sink Below $40 Per Barrel Again?
Arightee folks, this week is set to be a scream (R.I.P. Wes Craven) as we shimmy from August into September (hark, 114 shopping days until Xmas), and into a deluge of new economic data. Chinese equities overnight have wilted into the end of the month, racking up a 12.5% loss for August, while we’ve had a few tidbits of data out of Europe.
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Conservation key at historic OH Ranch
Even as a disconnect exists between ranches and Canadians who purchase food from stores, the historic OH Ranch, now operated by the Calgary Stampede, is now telling its own ranch to table story.
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Sales stay close to steady for Alberta restaurants and bars
Albertans seem to have not lost their appetite for eating and drinking out, despite the slumping economy.
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Dubai’s rent index no longer updated every four months
The Dubai rent index is no longer being updated every four months, as it had been since 2009 when it was launched, the Dubai Land Department (DLD) has said.
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Luxury home sales in Calgary fall sharply but prices hold steady
Sales in Calgary’s luxury home market may have fallen sharply from last year but properties have tended to hold their prices, says a new report released by RE/MAX.
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