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• Chart of the Day: U.S. Payroll Employment By Industry, October 2011 6 Nov 2011
• Chart of the Day: S&P500 2011 Heat Map 3 Jan 2012

• The Doctor and the Dealman: An Energy Update 26 Jun 2010
• Africa’s declining energy exports 22 Feb 2011
• Green Energy – Too Many Subsidies, Too Little Performance 10 Jan 2012

• China launches retaliatory investigation into U.S auto subsidies 29 Oct 2009
• Thoughts on Nuclear Energy 23 Mar 2011
• GM gets the green light on its section 363 bankruptcy 6 Jul 2009

• On Recent Positive Economic Data and Other Links 13 Sep 2010
• Credit Writedowns is now on Twitter 20 Oct 2009
• You Twitter People Are Dumbing Down The Internet. STOP IT NOW! 26 Sep 2010

• The Revolution Will Not Be Seasonally Adjusted, The Sequel 17 Aug 2010
• Chart of the day: Industrial Production 17 Jun 2008
• Industrial production implodes 15 Sep 2008

• UBS is sitting on billions in bad student loans 15 Feb 2009
• Student Loans: New Credit Crunch Casualty 22 May 2008
• BofA carrying loans on books for $44 billion above fair value 27 Feb 2009

• China’s coal problem 19 Apr 2011
• Coal News: Australia’s Carbon Tax Battle and How Natural Disasters Are Pushing Prices Up 26 Apr 2011
• 3000 billion tons of coal off Norway’s coast 2 Mar 2011

• Oil Sands: Fueling the Future 22 Mar 2011

• Has oil’s demand destruction already arrived? 12 Apr 2011
• US Airways says speculators caused oil price rise 25 Jul 2008
• Refiners as proxy for demand: layoffs for first time at Valero 8 Sep 2009

• Slow progress at Fukushima Daiichi 29 Apr 2011
• Risk Aversion Prompts Safe Haven Flows 15 Mar 2011
• More on the Deepwater Horizon disaster and other links 30 May 2010

• China’s coal problem 19 Apr 2011
• Gasland and Natural Gas Drilling 26 Feb 2011
• Fracking and China’s quest for natural gas 21 Apr 2011

The news that Blackstone Group LP (BX), the world's largest private equity firm, is set to invest $1 billion in unconventional oil and gas projects in North America through a joint venture with Alta Resources has cemented a spotlight on fracking.

A U.S. Senate committee is currently conducting a hearing on the safety of hydraulic fracturing, as it is formally known. The province of Quebec, the state of New York, and the entirety of France have recently banned the technique. And two new studies claim that fracking-derived shale gas is actually worse for the environment than mining and burning coal. With so many claims flying around about this unconventional practice, let's get a closer look at the facts.

• Fracking and China’s quest for natural gas 21 Apr 2011
• On The Environmental Impact Of Gas Fracking And Other Links 23 Jun 2010

• 3000 billion tons of coal off Norway’s coast 2 Mar 2011
• This is the problem with China’s currency peg 18 Mar 2010
• China to G20: The Yuan is Not the Problem 18 Jun 2010

• Deepwater Horizon Spill Puts Offshore Drilling’s Future in Doubt 4 May 2010

• Japan’s Nuclear Accident is Impacting European Politics 16 Mar 2011
• The politics of the Goldman fraud case 19 Apr 2010
• The rough politics of European adjustment 1 Dec 2010

• Is There A Global Economic Slowdown In The Works? 12 Jul 2010
• The Doctor and the Dealman: An Energy Update 26 Jun 2010
• Africa’s declining energy exports 22 Feb 2011

• Car Sales Rise $23 Billion 20 Nov 2010
• GMAC in line for another $3.5 billion in bailout money 29 Dec 2009

• Have commodity prices peaked? 23 Jul 2008
• Have commodity prices bottomed? 10 Mar 2009
• Commodity prices are dropping across the board 31 Jul 2008