Commodities / Electricity Nov 27, 2012 – 11:52 AM By: Andrew_McKillop To be sure, rumours of the impending death of oil are exaggerated and anticipate trends – but since 2001 the trend continues. Using IEA data, in 1973 the OECD countries sourced 53% of their total energy  supply from oil, underlining that the post-2001 trend […]

By Evan Ramstad Getty Images North Korean workers assemble cars at the Nampo Pyeonghwa Motors’ factory in 2007. An experiment in building cars in North Korea appears about to end, though it will do little to ease the world’s oversupply of auto manufacturing capacity. Pyeonghwa Motors Corp., a company started by the South Korea-based Unification […]

China is short of people. More specifically, there is a shortage of skilled labour, a trend that is driving wages higher and threatening to undermine China’s international competitiveness – especially when compared to low wage competitors such as India, Vietnam and Indonesia. As a result, China is opening its doors to targeted immigration specifically for […]

[First posted at Forbes.] The fiscal cliff will not be a new topic to regular readers of this column.  I have been writing about it for almost two years, including with publication of my short book in the Encounter Broadside series, Obama and the Crash of 2013. What is new is the recognition that only free […]