Gordon Brown Asks OPEC to Increase Oil Production
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a quick trip to Saudi Arabia over the weekend. He was the only western leader to make the trip. According to The Times Mr. Brown: More on Gordon Brown Asks OPEC...
View ArticleBush Pushes Oil Rigs off California – Arnie Disagrees.
Yesterday afternoon United States President George W. Bush lifted the executive ban on drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf, which was signed by the first President Bush in 1990. Here's the...
View ArticleAn Irony of the Financial Crisis – Action on Poverty Looks Utterly Achievable
Just over a week ago I found myself once again on EasyJet flight EZY6167 heading from Bristol to Amsterdam. I asked the head of the cabin crew if he knew Dawn, who operated the camera on one of our...
View ArticleThe Financial Crisis Goes Global – European Banks Need a Bail-Out Too
Another day dawns, and the list of failed banks grows ever longer. Congress has renamed the Bail-Out as The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The House has just rejected the latest draft by 228...
View ArticleT. Boone Pickens on Lack of Leadership and Oil Prices
In an interview on CNBC this morning Texas oil billionaire and wind energy advocate T. Boone Pickens blamed "lack of leadership" from George W. Bush and "that speech" from Nancy Pelosi for the vote...
View ArticleG20 Meet as Obama's Favourite Corzine Flushes a Few More Billion Down the Pan
As we reported last week, the leaders of the G20 nations (plus a few others) are on a jaunt to the Mediterranean seaside in Cannes this week. Amongst other things they are scheduled to discuss the...
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