• What are the all-in costs of Saudi Production? 24 Jun 2011

• Saudi Arabia Tries To Calm Oil Markets 22 Feb 2011
• What are the all-in costs of Saudi Production? 24 Jun 2011
• Saudi Concerns About High Oil Prices Signals Potential OPEC Move 31 Jan 2011

• Coal News: Australia’s Carbon Tax Battle and How Natural Disasters Are Pushing Prices Up 26 Apr 2011
• Grantham: ‘Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever’ 25 Apr 2011
• China’s coal problem 19 Apr 2011

• Silver…Silver…Silver….’More on the Case of Silver’ 3 Nov 2010
• Jim Rogers is still bullish on commodities 15 Jan 2010
• Rogers: Bail on the dollar and equities 12 May 2009

• Where’s the Land of Opportunity These Days? 20 May 2010
• Jeremy Grantham has ‘already started to sell’ 11 Nov 2010
• Grantham: Night of The Living Fed 26 Oct 2010

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

• On The Environmental Impact Of Gas Fracking And Other Links 23 Jun 2010
• Gasland and Natural Gas Drilling 26 Feb 2011
• Russia: playing chicken with Ukraine over natural gas 4 Jan 2009

• Indonesia on Food inflation: Let them eat garden food 7 Jan 2011
• Peak Oil, the Saudis and the Middle East protests 9 Feb 2011
• Peak oil: it’s all about the Saudis 27 Jun 2008

• Largest U.S. refiner Valero now permanently shutting capacity 20 Nov 2009

• Food for Thought 7 Feb 2011
• Indonesia on Food inflation: Let them eat garden food 7 Jan 2011
• FUD for Thought 2: What, Me Worry? 19 Oct 2010

• The Doctor and the Dealman: An Energy Update 26 Jun 2010
• China Is Winning the Energy Race 5 Aug 2010

• Peak oil: it’s all about the Saudis 27 Jun 2008
• Chrysler building: is the Middle East the new Japan? 9 Jul 2008
• Saudis drop WTI oil contract 29 Oct 2009

• Hellmeyer Interview Part 1: $2,500 is a very conservative forecast for gold 7 Dec 2010
• The bearish argument for the global economy 14 Feb 2009
• Does Quantitative Easing Work in Boosting the Real Economy? 2 Nov 2010

• Wheat and Currencies 12 Aug 2010
• Russia to re-arm: Obama’s first test 17 Mar 2009
• McCain and his anti-Russia rhetoric 8 Aug 2008

• More bullishness from Jeremy Grantham 10 Mar 2009
• Jeremy Grantham: the bear growls 17 Jun 2008
• Jeremy Grantham: “I am officially scared” 29 Jul 2008

• Noontime markets update 6 Oct 2008

• Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Live Video 30 May 2010
• More on the Deepwater Horizon disaster and other links 30 May 2010
• Gulf Coast Industries Crushed By Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe 30 May 2010

• Links: 2010-04-11 Peak oil alert, soybean trade war 11 Apr 2010
• Links: 2010-03-17 – China, Lehman and more 17 Mar 2010
• Links: 2010-03-16 – More on Lehman’s accounting fraud 16 Mar 2010

• Rogers: Bail on the dollar and equities 12 May 2009
• Jim Rogers: Called Freddie and Fannie a ‘disaster’ two months ago 8 Sep 2008
• Chart of the day: Commodities 29 Oct 2008

• Valero crushes earnings: I was wrong 28 Oct 2008
• Refiners as proxy for demand: layoffs for first time at Valero 8 Sep 2009

• Marc Faber says avoid financials and buy gold 27 Jun 2008
• Marc Faber: I advise every American to hold his gold outside of the United States 28 Nov 2008
• Marc Faber: Dr. Doom goes bullish 7 Mar 2009

• Peak oil: are we there yet? 20 Jun 2008
• Peak oil: it’s all about the Saudis 27 Jun 2008
• What happened to peak oil? 28 Aug 2008

• News from around the web: 2009-07-21 21 Jul 2009
• News from around the web: 2009-09-07 7 Sep 2009
• News from around the web: 2009-07-29 29 Jul 2009

• News from around the web: 2009-07-21 21 Jul 2009
• News from around the web: 2009-07-28 28 Jul 2009
• News from around the web: 2009-08-03 3 Aug 2009

• Bedtime Reading: 2009-04-28 28 Apr 2009
• Bedtime reading: 2009-05-14 14 May 2009
• Bedtime Reading: 2009-06-18 18 Jun 2009

• News from around the web: 2009-07-20 20 Jul 2009

• Random Musing: mathematical models 19 Aug 2008
• Random musing: slip in the bad news now 8 Sep 2008
• Bernanke is responsible for the market meltdown 27 Jun 2008

• Case-Shiller: green shoots, yes but pretty grim nonetheless 28 Apr 2009
• Payrolls fall by 159,000 in U.S. 3 Oct 2008
• China is set up for a big fall 23 Dec 2008

• Links: 2009-03-27 27 Mar 2009
• Links: 2009-01-06 6 Jan 2009
• Links: 2009-03-24 24 Mar 2009

• Links: 2009-03-25 25 Mar 2009
• Links: 2009-02-03 3 Feb 2009
• Links: 2009-02-23 23 Feb 2009

• Additions to Credit Crisis Timeline: 02 June 2008 2 Jun 2008
• Danish banking crisis the worst in Europe 24 Sep 2008
• Credit Crisis Timeline 11 May 2008

• Ten predictions for 2008 28 Jul 2008
• Revisiting my predictions for 2008 10 Sep 2008
• News round-up: 22 Aug 2008 – storybook version 22 Aug 2008