' The oil era will end in 30 years, as it is replaced by alternatives, offshore, and tar sands,' said Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister, who invited me on his private jet for a trip to the kingdom so I could conduct an exclusive interview during the seventies.
Featured Trades: (DR. GEORGE FRIEDMAN OF STRATFOR), (HEDGE FUND RADIO), (RSX), (FXI), (EPOL), (TUR) Market Vectors Russia ETF Trust iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market ETF iShares MSCI Poland Investable Market ETF iShares FTSE Xinhua China 25 ETF 1) Dr. George Friedman of STRATFOR on Hedge Fund Radio. China is in serious trouble. That is the
Featured Trades: (WHEAT), (CORN), (SOYBEANS) PowerShares DB Multi Sector Commodity Trust Teucrium Commodity Trust Corn 2) Grain Prices Are Spiking Everywhere. Now the grains are literally on fire. News reports over the weekend of wild fires triggered by historic draught conditions in Russia and the Ukraine, consuming vast swaths of wheat have sent prices flying.
'The whole US market is pretty much low quality these days,' said Richard Bernstein, of Bernstein Capital Management.
Featured Trades: (CHINA), (FXI) 1) China's PMI Sets Market a Flutter. Several decades ago, a kid selling greeting cards door to door (yes, that's how old I am) stopped by my office. When I said no, he suddenly burst into tears and threw a handful of samples up in the air, which then wafted back
'Cleantech, greentech, and energy technology has to be the next great global industry. China gets it,' said Pulitzer Prize winner tom Freidman, author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded.
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'If you don't believe in global warming, fine, that's between you and your beach house,' said Tom Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times.
