I hope you are right on pricing. I do not try to guess those but if my own views are correct they have only one way to go - up seekingalpha.com/article/4158962-gas-new-oil

I read today that UK government debt - already very high - has risen higher than forecasts made at budget time. Increasing interest rates will not help.

Good article. It is also worth remembering that the last Greek bail-out did not actually go to Greece, much of it went Deutsche Bank to save them from their exposure to Greece. On another occasion it was found that same "assets” were held at different parts of this mammoth bank at 40 different values. I doubt that has been fixed. One also wonders where the auditors were.

Good article. I am very interested and have much to learn about block chain. Among other things it is very energy intensive and I would like to know if there are any reliable sources of information about that. I touched on its energy use in this recent article seekingalpha.com/article/4158962-gas-new-oil

I spent my entire life in manufacturing and got involved with robotics and computer controlled machines in the late 1970s. Those early developments led to different jobs rather than job losses except for the unskilled. Today the category of manufacturing of capital goods needs to be changed to something else because connected services now add more than 50% to the revenues - and much more to the profits - of many of today’s machinery manufacturers.

Trump focussed on commodity products - steel and aluminium. He should focus on fixing the education system that remains stuck in the 1970s and is not “manufacturing” anywhere near the number of scientists, technologists and engineers that those services need

I think Amazon will one day implode. It is becoming just another conglomerate and we can see where they have gone.

Interesting article but demand needs to be factored in as well. That is increasing. I had my own views published on SA a while ago and I have not changed them. I was wrong about prices - they exceeded my guess and I doubt they will go much lower from here. seekingalpha.com/.../4114905-black-gold-political-vs-practical

If you do not like the word try unique. Check out the political system of direct democracy - it is like no other in the world and it works. Fascinating and unique

Interesting article. If you are right the SNB has not been helping my Swiss equity investments - they are down with the rest. Incidentally Switzerland has more world leading companies per capita that any other country in the world and that despite the ever appreciating - over decades - currency and much of their business is done outside the country because it is so small. Fascinating country that is also my home.

Interesting article. I remain curious to see how the Irish border issue will work out. One day the word equivalence with EU rules was used and when that did not suit it was changed to alignment. Playing with words is one thing the EU and UK are good at - making things work properly they certainly are not.