Authored by Tom Luongo,
In 1989 Francis Fukayama declared that we had reached “The End of History.” Democracy as a form of government would, in fact, be the end of the evolution of human interaction. The West had triumphed and that the rest was ‘just a chase scene,’ to borrow a phrase from Neal Stephenson’s brilliant dystopian novel “Snow Crash.”
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I didn’t spend all week writing about the gigantic tremors occurring in the Middle East because I thought it was fun. If I’m even remotely correct in my analysis, the entire world will be affected and shaped for decades to come by what’s about to go down in the region.
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
As I noted last Friday, the recently approved budget was an anathema to any fiscally conservative policy. As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget stated:
Authored by Gregory Brew via OilPrice.com,
Despite the recent market rally and current bullish streak in oil prices, the years-long competition for market share between OPEC and U.S. shale producers shows no sign of abating, and will likely continue for the next several years at least.
Tracking the lagged rebound in WTI prices, the US oil rig count rose by 9 this week - the biggest weekly rise since June.
And with production at record highs, we suspect OPEC will need to jawbone some more...
And total US Crude output just hit a new record high...