Posts Tagged ‘Russia’

• Cross-Posting: Learning from Lagos
  Gregor Macdonald, October 1st, 2009 at 11:31 pm, Comments: 0

  GregorWeekly subscribers might enjoy reading a Gregor.us post from this evening, on the topic of resource nationalism and the stagnation of Non-OPEC oil supply. | see Learning from Lagos.

• Readings: Tuesday 29 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 29th, 2009 at 9:41 pm, Comments: 0

  Where High Speed Rail Makes the Most Sense: An America 2050 Report, as covered by The Infrastructurist.
  Russia throws another currency on the barbie: Izabella Kaminska , FT Alphaville.
  Historical Home Sale Volume Measured in Dollars: Rich Toscano, Professor Piggington’s Econo-Almanac for the Landed Poor.
  The Crossroads of Sustainability and Suicide: Chris Nelder, Get Realist.
  China’s Mr. [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 19 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 19th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, Comments: 0

  The FT Alphaville Blog did a nice wrap-up yesterday | see:  Bull in a China bullion shop | on the phenomenon which I have called The Chinese Silver Download Experience.  Do give it a read because what’s helpful in the FT coverage is the greater level of detail, down at street level, that only on-site reportage can provide. I [...]

• Gregor Weekly Macro Note: Saturday 12 September 2009
  Gregor Macdonald, September 12th, 2009 at 9:51 pm, Comments: 0

  Symbolic September has crammed all sorts of meaning, into just two weeks. Between the US and China, we’ve got everything from a whispering cold war in Gold-Dollar-Yuan, to a hot war in drilling pipe and automobile tires. Between Japan and the US, we’ve seen a change election sweep a new party to power, led by [...]