Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Brent Crude and WTI - When the Same Thing Becomes Very Different

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A commodity must be fungible.  The value of a bushel, barrel, or ounce of a given commodity comes not from its uniqueness, but from the fact...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

It's Time to Lift Restrictions on US Oil Exports

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Chart taken from WSJ.com The big news in energy last week was that the International Energy Agency projected the United States will over...
Monday, November 12, 2012

General Public Finally Realizes Commodities ETFs are Terrible

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Chart taken from WSJ.com Today the Wall Street Journal ran an article describing why commodities ETFs are terrible instruments with whi...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Going Long on Election Knowledge - Investing in Information with the IEM

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The most valuable commodity is information.  I could hit the thesaurus and start coming up with different words for "information",...
Monday, July 9, 2012

China's Taste For Wine

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Though not traded on a futures exchange, wine is still, literally anyway, a commodity.  Further, it's a commodity that many people inves...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Even Newer Futures Contracts!

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Hard Assets Investor just published an article of mine running down the new futures contracts that I had discussed previously (Cobalt, Moly...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Nice try US government, we're still not buying natural gas

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Two weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran an article with the headline: "Natural-Gas Data Overstated" . Apparently, the Energy D...