“Validated Carbon Credits”: a Correction, a Confirmation, Questions, and No Hint of an Apology
The Gibraltar regulator confirms by email that James Richards company Baron Traders Limited is registered in Gibraltar.
Moron from Scam Companies “Validated Carbon Credits” and “Baron Traders Limited ” Threatens This Blog
By Richard Smith
I posted this a few days ago, about the screechingly obvious fake Gibraltar company Validated Carbon Credits, a trading name of Baron Traders Ltd and its lying "CEO" James Richards. Two comments to the post have caught my eye:
It´s obvious your posting is not only slanderous but based on pure conjecture without...
Validated Carbon Credits and Baron Traders Limited Have (Update: Briefly) Left the Building
The FT and a scammer respond to a Carbon Credits post at NC
“FT Adviser” Tricked Into Lending the Good Name of the Financial Times to Carbon Credit Scammers
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Gaddafi’s Murder And International Law
This is an informative and sobering video by Real News Network on the extrajudical Nato/US killing of Gaddafi. This interview gives some background on what the US interests were and why Gaddafi, who for the previous five years had generally been a cooperative client, became a target.
Energy Efficiency Doesn’t Work
By Cameron Murray, a professional economist with a background in property development, environmental economics research and economic regulation. Cross posted from MacroBusiness
The word efficiency carries a meaning immersed in all things positive – you never hear that being more efficient could possibly be detrimental. In fact, if you can bear the evangelical fervour, you...
Tabb: HFT makes up a third of OTC energy swap trading
Attention over-the-counter (OTC) energy traders who think there’s no prominent high frequency trading (HFT) presence in their section of the market.A Tabb Group research...
Jon Rynn: A Fracking Mess – Natural Gas is Not the Fuel of the Future
By Jon Rynn, author of the book Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The power to rebuild the American middle class. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and is a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems. Cross posted from New Deal 2.0.
Between questionable science, health hazards, and exorbitant costs, there’s no fracking...
Wikileaks: Saudis Warned About Oil Speculators in 2007 and 2008
Kevin Hall of McClatchy wrote about Wikileaks releases showing that the Saudis were concerned about oil market speculation leading to unduly high prices in 2007 and 2008. In 2008, we wrote that the Saudis said they did not see tightness in the market, and they also warned that prices were excessive. The Wikileaks...
Commodities Tank
We've been sayin' the commodities runup and the fixation on inflation looked like a rerun of spring 2008: a liquidity-fueled hunt for inflation hedges when the deflationary undertow was stronger. That observation is now looking to be accurate.
But what may prove different this time is the speed of the reversal. With investors acting as...
Gas Pump Woes
Time for comic relief. Hat tip Tim Coldwell (click to enlarge):
