Jul

24

US Patent Office Starts Regulations From New Patent Law

July 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

The America Invents Act (2011, H,R. 1249), the first patent law reform in 60 years has started its rule making process. Surprised?  There’s a new patent law in the U.S. and it did get done under the radar of much of the economy unlike other revolutions over the past few years. In typical Congressional style […]

Jul

6

Are the Tables Turned on OPEC?

July 6, 2012 | 8 Comments

We’re coming up on 40 years of OPEC trying to set the price of oil as high as they can manage.  The oil market is finally at a turning point, non-OPEC production is up, demand is down, and international economics may have finally found a bright spot in ‘globalization’. This week the EU’s embargo on […]

Jan

24

The Sparks of Economic Destruction

January 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

Your humble writer had a tense conversation with a former banker yesterday over the points that trigger economies to topple out of their comfortable zone.  Amazingly this banker is convinced the problem is not spending enough money from the government down to the poor.  The belief is printing money or “quantitative easing”, going into debt, […]

Jan

19

Political Insolence For the Entire World to See

January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

Today the U.S. President’s State Department issued its decision denying the Keystone XL Pipeline application. Your shocked, humbled and deeply embarrassed writer apologizes to the whole of Canada, in particular those who have risked and worked, invested and managed the development of their resources and willingness to work with us to benefit from them. The […]

Dec

29

Iran Could Be an Oil Price and Environmental Threat

December 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

It’s easy to see the Iranian Mullahs and their allied minions as a world threat.  The country is a significant source of crude oil, has a strategic location over the Strait of Hormuz, seems to be busily building an atomic arsenal with missile delivery systems, supports radical and violent extraterritorial groups and many believe is […]

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