3) Contango Oil and Gas (MCF)--
Oil crisis issues are so far away from anyone's thoughts these days that I think it is time to increase exposure to the sector.
Not exact matches
At
issue is whether Lehman's
crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's
oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.
Governor Ajimobi who was the Guest Speaker spoke on a topic titled «State Financing and Over-dependence on
Oil:
Issues and challenges» identified a number of factors responsible for the on - going financial
crisis in the country.
These challenges came from every angle from new emissions standards in 1970 to an
oil crisis three years later, in addition to innumerable engineering
issues.
The 1973
oil crisis nearly killed Citroen, which had purchased Maserati in 1968, while the early 1990s saw the Chubasco mid-engined sports car cancelled due to financial
issues and the introduction of front - engined, six - cylinder cars, a rather awkward layout for the brand.
This month's
issue of Money Advisor by Consumer Reports echoes the research saying that «you'll generally do better investing all at once rather than in increments» but goes on to say that «averaging shines in times of
crisis» and gives four examples:
oil crisis (1973), Black Monday crash (1987), Sept 11, 2001 and Bear market of 2002.
In this
issue, we address the economic costs of deflation, the evolution of investment after the financial
crisis, the role of debt in the recent drop in
oil prices, how financial inclusion affects central bank policy, and market liquidity.
Some of these are addressed in the present
issue: the geopolitics of peak
oil (John Bellamy Foster), the production of biofuels as a liquid fuel alternative and its consequences (Fred Magdoff), the economics of climate change (Minqi Li), the science of climate change (John W. Farley), the ocean
crisis (Brett Clark and Rebecca Clausen), the problem of large dams (Rohan D'Souza), and the world water
crisis (Maude Barlow).
Transition Milwaukee (TM) is part of an international movement formed, in part, in response to the peak
oil crisis and more generally around
issues of climate change, economic security and permaculture principles.Peak
oil is a non-controversial acknowledgement from government, academic and industry experts that fossil fuels, a finite resource, reach a peak moment of production and necessarily...
A new organization, appropriately named the Green New Deal Group, has picked up on this idea and is laying out an ambitious 100 month agenda that it says is necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, reports the BBC.Tackling the triple
crisis of energy prices, the credit crunch and climate change Comprising a number of experts from the fields of finance, energy and the environment, this group has
issued a list of proposals that it claims will tackle the threats of high
oil prices, climate change and the credit
crisis.