The quest for cheap energy and cheap labor is a conquering human urge, one that has played out with notable ferocity starting with the Industrial Revolution. The introduction of coal into British manufacturing and the more recent...

Brandon Smith/Activist Post All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party - Mao Tse Tung After...

Michael Hartnett, Bank of America’s Chief Global Equity Strategist, recently published a masive report titled The Longest Pictures, which includes tons of charts with some of the most obscure data out there.  The include the US Treasuries...

SARTRE/Activist Post For well over the last decade BATR has argued that the Republic is dead. Now that the Supreme Court has rendered their decision on Obamacare, there can be no doubt that the funeral for a...

Michael Hartnett, Bank of America’s Chief Global Equity Strategist, published a massive chart deck in a new report titled The Longest Pictures. It includes tons of obscure historical financial market data. One chart we found interesting was...

Depending on how you date it, we are now in the fourth year of the country’s so-called energy revolution (2008 was the first year the New York Times wrote about fracking in the Marcellus shale).  The gains are real:...