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Credit lines are drying up and the risk premium is rising

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFstsZ8MjGec&refer=home

Ergo borrowing by consumers and business is going to ...

If you're not close to a toilet then put a diaper on before you read this:

So what's the truth here guys? The claim was that they lost "20%"? Really? Or was it 50%? Or was the leverage ratio more l ...

I don't understand why cash would be a bad position when the "bubble deflates." Many people agree that hyperinflation is going to happen at some point, but if it is preceded by credit contraction and ...

Diversify! Holding gold in an Asian US Treasury sell off will only see you get hurt as the dollar climbs in value rapidly. Remember lower prices for bonds equals a higher yield. A higher yield equals ...

Expect the Working Group, aka The Plunge Protection Team , to intervene in a behind the scenes engineered bailout. It's that big a deal.

The CDO market is estimated to be worth $1 Trillion dollar ...

No more than what one would expect on Fantasy Island

DAYDREAM 7:

Finally, there is the illusion that protecting the environment is entirely consistent with limitless economic growth, with concre ...

Here is a brief excerpt from the Coal Authorities submission to the UK House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee Energy Review in 2006

Contrary to Government forecasts coal burn for electricity ...

Do you understand Hubbert at all?? UK coal production shows a classic Hubbert curve. Production decline is inevitable post-peak. Remaining reserves are too expensive to produce. Once production has ...

Judging by your peak coal UK graph it seems likely that if they choose too the UK can ramp back up to 70 Mt coal/year and then proceed to decline from there. Yes they are far past peak, they will nev ...

Interesting article but I am a bit dubious about some of the logic employed in the article. For example, the plummeting of British coal reserves is in large part due to the decimation of the British c ...

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Ffuture scenarios for global coal consumption are cast into doubt by two recent European studies on world coal supplies. The first, Coal: Resources and Future Production (PDF 630KB), published on A ...

I read that article earlier today on the BBC's web site. Once again it highlighted how many of the solutions proposed for dealing with Global Warming are exactly the same as those that will be req ...

Point of information:

What is the difference between 'Suburban reading material' and any other sort of newspaper/periodical material? Is it just a UK expression or does it imply the source is bett ...

Don't you think that a peak oil caused total collapse of civilization is likely?

Peak oil may well cause the collapse of our current industrial civilisation. Whether it will herald end to all huma ...

I'm of the opinion now that Iran took British hostages to prevent a possible US attack against it, which many were saying was imminent.

Well if that is their logic then they have made a serious m ...