June 11, 2008
I haven't been mentioning books here as often as I used to, so I'll try to get back on track. I'm just finishing up Rick Perlstein's fast-paced Nixonland, and I highly recommend it. It is either a fascinating look...
I've been messing with the latest data from BP's 2008 Statistical Review of Energy Markets. If I get a moment I'll do more, but here is an animated look (via Google chart widgets) at oil consumption and growth therein across...
Turns out that the Panama canal has been misbehaving in recent weeks, which likely hasn't been helping U.S. oil inventories. Transit times for the canal had ballooned to 10 days, and only now are they down to a more...
Nice of the fine folks at Pensions & Investments magazine to give my site a Silver Medal in their search for the best financial blog. If I have to lose to anyone, I suppose I can tolerate losing to my...
Nattering about Steve Jobs' health, as well as a WSJ story this morning about the cult of personality that grew up around Broadcom's Henry Nicholas, got me thinking about personality premiums at public companies. What U.S. public companies have the...
I'm on record saying that Yahoo and Microsoft would both be better off if their respective CEOs found non-company-related things to do with their time, but I was still interested to see this chart from the new Glassdoor.com service. It...
Missed this earlier today, but the editorial in today's FT by BP CEO Tony Hayward is worth reading in its entirety. He beats up on three myths, as he calls them, largely having to do with the role of speculators...
Here's a thought: Are too many countries playing a kind of economic chicken? Their refusal to control stimulative policies, despite increasing inflation and runaway oil prices, has them in a highly risky position. Many countries are already experiencing double-digit inflation...
