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Issues for future oil/gas prices

Discoveries and re-discoveries of global oil and gas fields along with ever improving technologies have lifted expectations for increased energy supplies.   Geopolitics, technology and government regulations will influence the timing and the size of these new discoveries being brought to global consumers. Over the last 10 years developed and developing countries have been focused [...]

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Oil prices for 2012

Knowing how others are reacting to the market is sometimes the most effective approach to personal investing.   Right now oil traders/speculators have placed unhistorically large and polar opposite options and futures trades on oil reaching either $150/barrel or $50/barrel over the next year.   They are placing these trades based on tail risk (a really BIG bad or good [...]

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Iran and you

Financial markets and investors view geopolitical events as odd, almost non-important events.  The number of variables influencing geopolitical outcomes are so numerous that no computer program currently exists that can create a reliable bell-shaped curve of probable outcomes.  As we read about and consider various geopolitical outcomes, our minds hurt thinking about the variations and influencing factors. Iran [...]

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