All Posts Tagged With: "energy plan"

Oil Prices: 2 Ways to Hedge Against Global Oil Demand

Hurricane Ike is bearing down on the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, the Saudi’s are cutting back on production, there’s been little reduction in demand from Asian countries… and yet oil is in retreat.

Why doesn’t supply and demand seem to apply to oil? Well – as we’ve been witnessing the past few weeks – it does. Oil prices are now on the verge of breaking through the $100 barrier.

In response, the stocks of companies who are even remotely connected to its production and distribution have gotten punished – down by 50% or more in some cases – in…

17Sep2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | Continued

The T. Boone Pickens Way: How To Supercharge Your Portfolio

While many billionaires are enjoying retirement on a super-sized yacht in the Caribbean, T. Boone Pickens is doubling down at the age of 80. Over the last three decades, investors who have followed his lead have made millions.

Pickens doesn’t work because he wants to move up the Forbes’ list of billionaires. Since last year, he’s given away over $200 million to his favorite charities. Instead, Pickens is a man on a mission and with a simple message: Ditch foreign oil and rebuild America’s domestic energy industry for a green and happy future.

Educated as a geologist, in 1951 T. Boone Pickens…

14Aug2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | Continued

Joyful Assignment For The Next President: A Unified National Energy Policy

By his own admission, a certain former President was not keen on “the vision thing” as a general proposition. He never did get around to proposing a Unified National Energy Policy. The successor co-Presidency brought forth many initiatives, but a Unified National Energy Policy was not one of them. Iteration II of the “no vision thing” has done no better in this regard.

Apparently the next Presidency is to be neither a Restoration nor a Continuation, which is probably a net positive. The prospect of a breath of fresh air carries with it a certain appeal. Whoever is elected President next…

16Jun2008 | William Kurtz | Comments Off | Continued
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