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If Only The Fool Understood Rentier Capitalism
We’ve another one of those Guardian blasts at the iniquities of capitalism. This time around it’s about rents…
This Rather Shafts The Economics Of Scottish Independence
If Scotland ever were to go independent and float away on that sea of oil money it needed…
Ed Conway’s Weird, Weird, Economics
This rather worries, that an alleged economist tells us that oil usage is going to peter out. Sure,…
Economics People, Seriously, Economics
Supergiant oil tankers are floating outside the world’s largest shipping ports with enough oil to meet the world’s…
How Can People Be This Stupid? At Harvard Even?
This Monday, two days before Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, oil futures went negative for the first time in…
The Guardian, Wrong Again. You Know, That Always, About Everything Thing?
The Guardian tells us that oil traders are hiring supertankers to store oil in. This is true. The…
Isn’t It Lovely To See Drivel In The Guardian Again?
So, if Australian (and UK) oil and gas was taxed more then there would be more tax revenues.…
Chevron And Exxon – To Explain Those Weak Refining Profits
This is something I’ve been banging on about over the years. Refining profits in the US and fracking.…
Owen Jones Thinks Saudi Aramco Will Pump More Oil After Privatisation
Owen Jones’ latest mind burbling is that if only we nationalised the oil companies then climate change would…
Saudi Aramco’s The World’s Most Profitable Company – But What Is Profit?
Not quite a philosophic, or existential, question but an important one all the same – just what is…