Here's the 13F Chart study for T. Boone Pickens' BP Capital updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/3/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whales are the ...

Hong Kong tycoon Stanley Ho is most famous in business for his vast and infamous casino empire and unofficial title as one of Asia’s richest people (his estimated US$8 billion net worth earned him the 113th rank in Forbes’ 2007 list of “the World’s Billionaires�). Might news of his recent ...

Pickens Plan, Redux: T. Boone says “the wind stuff is deader than hell right now,” but promises to push on with his plan to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil. — Wall Street Journal Who KO’d the Electric Car?:The concept of all-electric cars has faced resistance, but the ide...

The New York Times's embrace of Barack Obama's candidacy, and its fervent defense of him against John McCain's "racist" and unfair attacks, made 2008 a particularly bias-packed year for the paper. During the 2008 campaign Times bias often came with a smile, instead of a snarl, with the T...

Financial, networking, Wealth Gregory T. Huang wrote: On Friday, we reported that Tiger 21, a New York-based network and support group for the very wealthy, is setting up a Seattle chapter, headed by the local entrepreneur and investor Andy Sack. (Tiger 21 had planned to announce the news today, but...

I disagree with some of what Al Gore said today, but I welcome it nonetheless. Let me start with my points of disagreement: The Apollo Program is not the model. The Manhattan Project is the model. Apollo implies a win-win-win we can watch on TV. In World War II we gladly taxed ourselves and lent the...

Trend: In the U.S., oil imports amounted to 24% in 1970, 42% in 1991, and 70% in 2008. In July 2000, T. Boone Pickens anticipated the Bush presidency: "We should expect several military conflicts in the Middle East under President Bush, and while this may not be great for the economy it will be...

Gotta be a market nerd first T. Boone Pickens says speculators are scapegoats for recent oil price increases. Good because I noted it first. Governor Brian Schweitzer says there is 10X the USGS survey of oil reserves in the Bakken, and he wants to drill for it. Better, because it’s a plus for ...

Scene: Microhoogle. A strong player like Microsoft will usually dominate a scene with a weaker player confused about its identity like Yahoo is. By being the more aggressive player, Microsoft has painted Yahoo’s ‘character’ in their scene as, by turns, a ‘collegial acquisitio...

"You need a giant plan for America. Not the pissant 83 megawatt [windfarm] deals being stamped all over the country. There needs to be a huge plan from someone with leadership. It's going to take years to do, but it has to start now." Al Gore? Nope. Too plain-spoken. This quote comes f...