Tag: oil

Podcast
CapEx Team

BQP 052: Tracy Shuchart

Join Chris MacIntosh as he chats with Tracy Shuchart, one of the sharpest oil analysts around, to discuss what’s in store for the energy sector.

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Saudi Riyal
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Only Two Options For The Saudi Sheikhs

A few years ago, when living in Phuket, Thailand, a group of Saudis stayed for a week’s holiday in a neighboring villa.

Outside of the religious and social confines of the land of black gold and endless sand, this group made a bunch of spoiled 5-year olds left to run amok in a candy shop without adult supervision look positively angelic.

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Oil Wells
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Letters From a Hedge Fund Manager – Part V

As the housing boom of the 2000’s minted new millionaires every second Tuesday. So, too, the shale oil boom minted wealth faster than McDonald’s mints new diabetics. Estimates by the UND Center for Innovation Foundation in Grand Forks, are that the North Dakota shale oil boom was creating 2,000 millionaires

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Letters from a Hedge Fund Manager – Part IV

In today’s penultimate piece on shale oil (you can catch up on the previous letters here: Part I, Part II, and Part III), Harris talks about the role of central bankers of the world in the current energy bloodbath. Enjoy! [hr] Date: 20 January 2015 Subject: There Will Be Blood – Part

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Letters From a Hedge Fund Manager – Part III

Earlier last week we introduced you to the first part of a missive on shale oil by my friend Harris Kupperman. We followed that up with Part II where Harris dug deeper into some of the numbers in this sector – numbers which should be enough to bring terror into the

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Letters From a Hedge Fund Manager – Part II

Following right along from “Letters from a Hedge Fund Manager – Part I”, today we have “part deux” as a follow up for you… [hr] Date: 10 December 2014 Subject: There Will Be Blood – Part II Let me be clear: I am no expert on shale wells. I’m not

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Letters From a Hedge Fund Manager – Part I

Humans are hardwired to take things to extremes. Take junk food, for example; here is something that could be a nice treat every once in a while, and we go and scoff so much of it that we’ve turned diabetes into a national sport. And then we have shampoo. I

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Mede-Jean, not Medellin

Driving the back streets of Medellin a few weeks ago I found it interesting to see the various little pockets to the city. In the poor parts of town I noticed on a couple of occasions taxi drives running their vehicles on empty. I’ve seen this before in countries where

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