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• India’s Energy Ties with Iran Unsettle Washington

  
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  India’s relentless search for hydrocarbons to fuel its booming economy has managed the rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad, all the while leaving the Indian Treasury fretting about how to pay for its oil imports, given tightening sanctions on fiscal dealings ...
  12 hours ago

• The Leopard in the Well: Wilson Center and Circle of Blue Launch ‘Choke Point: India’

  
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  The original version of this article, by Keith Schneider, appeared on Circle of Blue . Choke Point: India  is a research and reporting initiative produced in partnership between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center’s  China Environment Forum and Asia Program . Perhaps because India is ...
  5 days ago

• Schuette warns gas stations against gouging

  
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  LANSING  – As Michigan drivers deal with a spike in gas prices, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has warned retailers against any attempt to take advantage of consumers by price gouging or price fixing. “Michigan consumers are struggling with rising costs just as summer vacations are getting underway, ...
  6 days ago

• VIDEO: Latest Business News: JPMorgan CEO Dimon Defends Disclosures in Whale Episode

  
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  JPMorgan CEO Dimon defends disclosures in Whale episode. Discussion about interest rates at ECB is ‘rich’. Encana names BP Gulf spill veteran as its new CEO Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our videos and articles. To stay in the loop, bookmark our homepage . ...
  1 week ago

• VIDEO: Latest Business News: JPMorgan CEO Dimon Defends Disclosures in Whale Episode

  
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  JPMorgan CEO Dimon defends disclosures in Whale episode. Discussion about interest rates at ECB is ‘rich’. Encana names BP Gulf spill veteran as its new CEO Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our videos and articles. To stay in the loop, bookmark our homepage . ...
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• Community barbeque to discuss Enbridge pipeline grievances and solutions

  
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  Residents oppose Enbridge’s pipeline and constitutional violations Three Rivers, Mich. – On Wednesday (June 12, 2013), the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI CATS) invites Three Rivers residents to attend an open community barbeque for those who wish to discuss how Enbridge construction has affected them ...
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• Despite “Greener Economy,” Extractive Industries’ Effects on Global Development, Stability Bigger Than Ever

  
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  Despite the appearance of a new, “greener” economy, extractive industries – mining, oil, and natural gas – are now responsible for “moving more earth each year, just for mining and quarrying, than the global hydrological cycle,” writes the Transatlantic Academy’s Stacy VanDeveer in a recent paper, ...
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• US Now Produces More Oil than it Imports for the First Time since 1995

  
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  When Brantley Hargrove noted in the Dallas Observer  on Thursday that the US produced more oil than it consumed during the last week in May (for the first time since February, 1995) he was awfully quick to give nearly all the credit to Texas. But he was proud, nevertheless Continue reading US Now Produces More ...
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• Paying Attention To Renewable Energy Subsidies

  
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  K.L — over at Democracy in America — traces the history of energy subsidies in the United States and laments the fact that renewable energy doesn’t seem to get a fair share of the pie: [Energy] subsidies have a long … Continue reading →
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• Russian Corporate Governance Follies: Putin Reaps What He Sows, and Who Trusts a Man With a Mullet?

  
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  A recurring pattern since Putin’s reelection has been for him to issue some ukase , which results in . . . nothing happening.  Then he vents, and rants and raves, sometimes in public, and . . . nothing happens. Today’s example, his command to Russian state companies to increase dividends : Most of Russia’s ...
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• The psychology of energy savings: Talking behavioral economics with Alex Laskey and Sendhil Mullainathan

  
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  Alex Laskey shows the amount of coal that should be able to power a lightbulb for a year. But because of massive energy waste, ten timess as much coal is needed. Photo: James Duncan Davidson “For the past five years we’ve been running the largest behavioral science experiment in the world,” says Alex Laskey ...
  2 weeks ago

• The new economic frontier is a chance for community resilience

  
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  I spoke at the Hay Festival last week, a very well-attended and enjoyable session.  Every day during the Festival, the Daily Telegraph produces ‘The Hayley Telegraph’, a free magazine given away at the Festival, which includes articles by, or about, some of that day’s speakers.  Here is the article I wrote for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Has the Squeeze Box?

  
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  The term “squeeze” is used rather imprecisely in financial markets.  To me, the term means an exercise of market power in a financial market, usually a derivatives market, like a futures market, options market, or the securities loan market. One commonly advanced explanation for the runup in Tesla’s stock ...
  2 weeks ago

• EFW Partners: Investing in scarcity

  
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  For a century or two, people have argued about whether the world is running out of the things we need. So far, we’re not. (Well, unless you are a farmer in Kansas in need of water .) Human ingenuity, new technology and market signals have increased supplies and helped us become more efficient. When the price of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Energy – Balancing the Bonanza: Interview with Mark Thoma

  
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  If you want an objective view of energy, ask an economist, who can tell you what to expect to pay at the pump in the coming years, and why, as well as what to expect from medium- and long-term economic growth and what the real drivers will be. These are questions that are crucial to a pending decision by the US ...
  2 weeks ago

• Elon Musk and Ben Bernanke. Separated at Birth?

  
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  My main issue with Elon Musk and Tesla is government subsidies.  (An issue the WSJ shares, apparently.  Though if commenter David Hoopes is right, they did not arrive at their opinion independently of me, given the echoes between my post and the WSJ’s subsequent oped .  There are definite echoes.)  If Tesla can ...
  2 weeks ago

• THE QUICK-GROWING EUCALYPTUS TREE.

  
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  Last December, we noted the oddity of paper milled in China being exported to Wisconsin (and, for all I know, Millinocket, Maine?)The followup articles in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel noted that something more than productivity-obsessed clear-cutting was at work.Wending Huang, Asia Pulp & Paper Co.s chief ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Is Up With World Energy?

  
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  It appears that many countries are suffering due to restrictions and regulations by their respective governments. Fossil fuels are the culprit and this scourge needs to be eradicated from the face of the earth. If you really feel that way, don’t use them. What’s that? Your power a d industrial infrastructure ...
  3 weeks ago

• Extended tax credits in U.S. could raise projected renewable electricity capacity and generation

  
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  On April 15, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released guidance clarifying the eligibility for the recently extended renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC). Congress passed the extension on January 1, 2013 as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA). EIA expects this extension ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lingle’s favored electric car company files for bankruptcy

  
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  Thanks to Life of the Land’s Henry Curtis for flagging the demise of the Israeli electric car company, Better Place , after it burned through a reported $800 million dollars. The company has now filed for bankruptcy after its products received a tepid response from consumers. The company apparently couldn’t sell ...
  3 weeks ago

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