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A couple of weeks ago, for no particular reason, I made an off-the-cuff musing on my Tastytrade show about the prospect, years from now, of the giant oil companies being dragged in front of some kind of world court, being called to account (and pay for) all the damage they have done to the world’s climate. Again, I’m not sure what possessed me to say something so random, but I was naturally struck when I saw these headlines this evening:
With all the grousing and grumbling I do here, I thought I’d change my tone and write up a genuinely positive, optimistic post. This has to do with an element of what I think will be a tectonic shift over the next twenty years: transportation.
As dull as that sounds, I think the changes that take place in how we get people (or cargo) from point “A” to point “B” are going to be more profound that Amazon, Facebook, and the iPhone put together. My insight, if you want to be generous enough to call it that, is spawned from a couple of (as is typical for me – – negative) observations I make on a periodic basis.
“if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die!” – Gordon Gekko
A hurricane got me thinking about something that’s been kicking around in my head recently. Allow me to explain. As many of you know, ZeroHedge takes on a couple of different guises. When markets are falling, which happens from time to time, they focus on the markets and anticipate just how far they should fall (which invariably is much, much farther than they actually do fall). When markets are strong, like recently, ZeroHedge simply focuses on Any Kind Of Bad News, since the markets aren’t providing any.
I realize that we’re all getting a bit weary of hearing about Dennis Gartman, his picks, and his fade-worthiness. I heard something, however, which compels me to offer up this post about what he said today on CNBC. The entire clip is here, but the important stuff is beneath it:
