The 3 most IMMINENT disasters. How to survive …

Posted by Matt in March 10th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Financial, Investing, Consumer Economy, Corporate Debt, Empire Of Debt, European Economies, Fuel Demand, Good Time Charlies, Government Debt, Little Hope, Man Woman And Child, Oil Prices, Opportunity Of A Lifetime, peak oil, Populous Countries, Profit Opportunities, Public Debt, Runaway Train, Trillions, Unmitigated Disaster, Woman And Child, World China

Of all the major disasters and threats to your security ahead — and all the major profit opportunities — three stand out as the most imminent of all:
Disaster #1: America’s Empire of Debt. If you think Americans are living a normal life, think again. Our entire consumer economy, lifestyle, livelihood — and nearly all or [...]

America, the fragile empire – latimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 28th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Niall Ferguson, Armageddon, Central And Eastern Europe, Collapse Of The Soviet Union, empire, Hindsight, Historian, Historians, Imperium, Lenin, Less Than Five Years, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oil Prices, Political Scientist, Precipitous Decline, Soviet Nuclear Arsenal, Soviet System, Soviets, Stephen Kotkin, Stockpile, Third World

The most recent and familiar example of precipitous decline is the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the benefit of hindsight, historians have traced all kinds of rot within the Soviet system back to the Brezhnev era and beyond. Perhaps, as the historian and political scientist Stephen Kotkin has argued, it was only the high [...]

Energy Wars: Russia’s Neighbors Get Even – TIME

Posted by Matt in January 25th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Energy, Belarus, blackmail, Current, Face, kremlin, moscow, Neighbors, Oil Prices, Quarrel, Risk, Russia, Soviet Republic, standoff

This January, all eyes are trained on Belarus, which has been having its own quarrel with Moscow over oil prices, threatening European energy supplies once again. But three weeks into the current standoff, there’s been a twist: Kazakhstan, another ex-Soviet republic, stepped in last week to offer Belarus its own oil. Now the Kremlin’s most [...]

Russia’s reserve fund to run out in 2010 – Kudrin | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire

Posted by Matt in January 22nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Economist Intelligence Unit, Federal Budget, Finance Minister, High Risk, National Prosperity, News Online, Newswire, Oil Prices, Pension Reforms, Ria Novosti, Russia, Russian News, Social Tensions, Social Unrest, Top News

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Russia is a high risk for social unrest. Do you think reserve fund problems are going to exacerbate social tensions?
Russia’s Reserve Fund will be completely exhausted in 2010 and will not begin to be replenished until 2013, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
The Reserve Fund was set up [...]

The Turbulent Year 2010 To Be the Year of Great Consequences – Pravda.Ru

Posted by Matt in December 31st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Forecasts, Geopolitical, Civil War, Consequences, Constraints, Geopolitical Issues, Gulf War, Large Scale, Mexico, Oil Prices, Persian Gulf War, Persian War, Pravda Ru, Prognoses, Running, Russia, Time Of Year, Tradition, Turbulent Year, Venezuela

Once again it is that time of year, where the minds of the world prognoses the future of humanity, for at least a year to come. In light of this tradition and for a second year running, I will endeavor to do the same.
… by the end of the year, oil will see a large [...]

IRAN, ISRAEL: Flexing muscles, turning up rhetoric in preparation for possible war | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times

Posted by Matt in November 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Amp, Babylon, diplomacy, Flexing Muscles, Hearts, Iran, Israel, Los Angeles Times, Missile Defense System, Nuclear Ambitions, Obama, Oil Prices, Options, Peaceful Resolution, Rhetoric

Things are not looking good for the possibility of a peaceful resolution between Israel and Iran over the latter’s nuclear ambitions. Oil prices rose and hearts sank across the region this week as Iran began its biggest air defense drill ever and Israel readied a new missile defense system in preparation for a possible three-front [...]

After the Recession, an Energy Crisis Could Loom – TIME

Posted by Matt in November 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Energy, Bad News, China, Crisis Time, Developing Countries, Energy Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Global Recession, Global Temperatures, Irreparable Damage, Massive Energy, Oil And Gas, Oil Prices, Oil Supplies, Pace

Here’s the bad news about the global recession’s potentially coming to an end: the recovery could spark a massive energy crisis with increased demand for fossil fuels from China and other developing countries, tighter oil supplies and skyrocketing oil prices. And this is just in the near future. The longer-term picture looks even more daunting. [...]

Nouriel Roubini, One on One: More Doom and Gloom — Seeking Alpha

Posted by Matt in October 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, All Time Highs, Commodities, Demand And Supply, Doom And Gloom, Economics, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, International Business, Inventories, Market Collapse, Nouriel Roubini, Nyu, Oil Prices, Rge Monitor, School Of Business, Seeking Alpha, Sowing The Seeds, Stern School Of Business, Universe

Dr. Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and international business at the Stern School of Business at NYU and chairman of RGE Monitor, is perhaps best known for his prescient predictions of the financial market collapse in 2005.
Index Universe (IU.com): You’ve said that you’re worried we’re already sowing the seeds of the next crisis. Where do [...]

How Wall Street Will Kill the Recovery – BusinessWeek

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Barrel Oil, Businessweek, Downturn, Economy, Excesses, Explosion, Federal Money, Gasoline Price, Oil Market, Oil Prices, Oil Report, Wall Street

Wall Street is taking much of its federal money and using it to again speculate in the oil market. That’s bad for everybody
Wall Street is up to its old tricks again.
One year later, one of the key excesses that led our consumer-based economy into an historic downturn is being abused in the [...]

Amid the global economic crisis, China rises

Posted by Matt in October 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Associated Press, Australian Iron, British Auto, Central Asia, Chinese Money, Economic Growth, Factories, Federal Debt, Financial Crisis, Financing Development, Global Economic Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iron Mines, Next Decade, Oil Fields, Oil Prices, Stimulus, Trillion, Trillions, Venezuela, Yuan

The financial crisis set back U.S. growth by years and will add trillions to the federal debt over the next decade. But China avoided the worst of the crisis. Its banks are healthy and, with the help of a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus, this year’s economic growth is on track to top 8 [...]