Sovereign Wealth Funds

Blessed by Nature, Cursed by Politics

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Commodities, Gas, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Norway, Natural Resources, Budget, Rule of Law, Africa, Oil, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Alaska, Minerals, Fiscal Policy, World News
Marcelo Giugale

The evidence is as strong as it is puzzling: countries that have a lot of natural resources -- things like oil, gas and minerals -- tend to be poorer than those that don't.

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Today's Bounty, Tomorrow's Promise: Better Policies to Manage Natural Resources

Leslie Lipschitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas, Exchange Rate Regimes, Natural Resources, Training, Monetary Policy, Good Governance, Resource Wealth, Technical Assistance, Fiscal Policy, Distribution of Profits, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Investment Strategy, Oil, High Level Seminar on Natural Resources, Development, Minerals, Exploration Costs, Stable Macroeconomic Environment, World News
Leslie Lipschitz

It's one of the perennial questions in economic policy-making: How do we best manage the economic and social challenges that stem from resource wealth?

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Eat or Be Eaten. Gov 2.0's Social Darwinism

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venture Capital, Alan W. Silberberg, Gov 2.0, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Government Business, Clean Tech, Business News
Alan W. Silberberg

Get your armor on, and keep it on. Otherwise, you will be stripped bare.

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An Infrastructure Bank: Reinvesting in America

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Labor Day, Clean Energy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wall Street Journal, Infrastructure, Ed Rendell, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Economic Stimulus Package, General Motors, Bailout, Janesville-Wisconsin, Rosa DeLauro, Broadband, Financial Regulation, Pension Funds, Batteries, Building Americas Future, Build America Bonds, p3s, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Michael Bloomberg, Christopher Dodd, Livable Communities, Chuck Hagel, San Francisco Bay Bridge, Barack Obama, American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation, Iraq War, Public-Private-Partnerships, Labor Union, Milwaukee, Warren Buffett, High Speed Rail, McKinsey Global Institute, Politics News
Michael Likosky

On Labor Day, President Obama announced a National Infrastructure Bank to direct our reinvestment in American infrastructure. In doing so, he returned...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, Green, Climate Change, Green Living, Russia, Energy, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Latin America, Middle East, Oil, Catastrophe, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Canada, Canada's Tar Sands, Offshore Drilling, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Oil Dependency, Safety, Mutual Funds, Oil Dependence, Pension Funds, Atlantic Ocean, Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Enron, Aig, Oil Gusher, Lehman Brothers, Black Gold, Electric Car, Civilisation, Government, Government Regulation, Man-Made-Disasters, Bp, Contingency Planning, Financial Crisis, Economic Crisis, Risk Management, Crisis Management, Marginal Cost, Risk Profile, British Petroleum, Admiral Thad Allen, Business News
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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Beijing's Balm for the T-Note Market

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Debt, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Beijing, Wall Street, China, Politics News
Eric C. Anderson

China is simply looking to assuage the T-note market long enough to get a large chunk of Beijing's foreign exchange reserves out of Washington's hands.

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Rethinking Beijing's Financial Options

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investments, Beijing, National Debt, Sovereign Wealth Funds, China, World News
Eric C. Anderson

If the economists are correct, China owns about 9% of our total national debt. Contrary to popular opinion, Beijing could sell that debt with few long-term consequences for China's economy.

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U.S. Housing Market: Fed Counting On Foreign Governments To Fund The Housing Market

washingtonpost.com | Howard Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freddie Mac, Norway, Sovereign Wealth Funds, U.S. Housing Market, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Obama Administration, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Business News

Senior officials in the Obama administration and at the Fed say they are counting in part on foreigners to keep the housing market funded. ...

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Beijing Quietly Signaling Intent To Flee U.S. Debt

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing, National Debt, Sovereign Wealth Funds, China, World News
Eric C. Anderson

Guess what, the Chinese are now ready to invest...in apparently anything but more U.S. Treasury notes. A great deal of evidence suggests they are seeking to diversify.

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Rape of the American Taxpayer

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Obama Administration, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Taxpayers, Citigroup, Politics News
Eric C. Anderson

I used to have a bumper sticker on my truck that read, "If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention." This sentiment was specifically aimed...

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Dennis Gartman, the Dean Of Commodity Traders Doesn't Understand the Recent Move in Oil Prices -- Let Me Try to Explain

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Cnbc, Energy Information Administration, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Denis Gartman, Oil Inventories, Fast Money, Oil, Opec, Energy Policy, Commodity Exchanges, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

To paraphrase Mr. Gartman, "when I don't understand what is happening, I get out the market."

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The Price of Oil Has Doubled on Obama's Watch -- the Time for Action is Now

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secretary of Energy Chu, NY Mercantile Exchange, Crude-Oil-Prices, Opec, Cftc, Strategic Petoleum Reserve, Wall Street Journal, Politics, Department of the Interior, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Bush Administraton, Oil Commodity Exchange Trading, Department of Energy, President Obama, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Speculation and psychology go hand in hand. The Department of Energy has it within its powers to change the temper of the marketplace.

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Fiscal Lessons from Moscow?

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Budget Deficit, Sovereign Wealth Funds, China, Business News
Eric C. Anderson

You know we have a problem when Moscow begins searching for an alternative to investing in U.S. Treasury notes.

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OPEC Meets Pumping Billows of Hot Air While Curtailing Production of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supertankers, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi, Politcs, Sigmund Freud, Oil, Opec, Energy, Business, Vienna, Media, Sovereign-Wealth-Funds, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The good nabobs of OPEC are going to Vienna to munch their strudel, lamenting about the urgency to push prices to the $75-80/bbl level before they can order a second course.

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Beijing Preparing for Exodus from U.S. Treasury Notes

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Sovereign Wealth Funds, China, Economic Crisis, China-Economic-Crisis, World News
Eric C. Anderson

When the Chinese stop -- or dramatically curtail -- their purchase of U.S. Treasury notes Washington is going to have to find a new creditor. Good luck.

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Obama's Tax Plans Will be up Against a Lot

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Ronald Reagan, Obama Stimulus, Money, Barack Obama Taxes, Soveign Wealth Funds, Stimulus, Obama Stimulus Package, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Hedge Funds, Stimulus Package, Tax Cuts, Economic Stimulus, Obama Taxes, 100 Days, Business News
Stephen Herrington

Low incomes are what defines a Third World economy. High incomes are what power and define a First World, prosperous, economy.

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More About Speculation and Manipulation In Oil Trading

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Wall Street Journal, Marc Rich, International Energy Agency, Cftc, Rotterdam, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

It is good news that the CFTC is awakening from its reverie and beginning to deal with the core issues of oil trading. But it is still too much of a hit/miss operation with a degree of insouciance.

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High Oil Prices: Is That The 800 Pound Russian Bear Dancing In The Trading Pits

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Cia, Cftc, Gazprom, Congress, United States, Alex Miller, Putin, Russia Oil, President Medvedev, Medvedev Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The price of oil has done for Russia what the cold war Kremlin was unable to achieve with all its missiles, tanks and mind numbing divisions of men and armor.

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Hugo Chavez's Very Excellent Windfall Oil Profit Tax

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Petroleos De Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Opec, Commodity Trading, Venezuela, Adam Smith, Windfall Profits, Oil, Windfall Profits Tax, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Hugo Chavez is not a friend of ours, but he does come up with some good ideas, since we are dealing with a commodity that has left all ballast of free market determination far behind.

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