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FBI vs. Apple: More Than Meets The Eye

The FBI said it had no choice but to seek a court order to force Apple to create a backdoor into the iOS...

C. Mitchell Shaw March 17, 2016

World’s Largest Coal Company Could Disappear

Bob Adelmann March 16, 2016

The world's largest private-sector coal company will miss making $70 million in interest payments for lack of money. Government regulations play a part...

U.S. Energy Agency Predicts Still Further Declines in Oil and Gas Prices

Bob Adelmann March 9, 2016

Predicting future oil prices is like trying to pin the tail on a skittish donkey in the dark. ...

Wall Street Pouring Billions Into Oil Companies

Bob Adelmann March 8, 2016

Wall Street investors have started pouring billions into the energy sector, persuaded that prices not only of crude oil but stocks of energy...

McAfee: Gov’t Backdoors Are Destroying National Security

C. Mitchell Shaw March 8, 2016

As the Apple/FBI case heats up, the surveillance hawks continue to insist that backdoors into the encryption that protects smartphones are necessary to...

Aubrey McClendon, “Reckless” Energy Pioneer, Dies in Fiery Car Crash

Bob Adelmann March 3, 2016

Oil man Aubrey McClendon's impact is being felt every time any driver pulls up to the pump or pulls out his checkbook to...

Apple, FBI Testify Before Congress About Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw March 2, 2016

Representatives of both Apple and the FBI appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Over a period of five and a half...

What’s Really at Stake in the Apple Encryption Case?

C. Mitchell Shaw March 2, 2016

There is a lot at stake in the case of the FBI demanding that Apple create new software to enable the agency to...

Oil Industry Facing Massive Challenges

Bob Adelmann February 29, 2016

Despite protestations to the contrary emanating from the Houston conference last week, the oil industry is facing increasingly severe difficulties. ...

U.S. LNG Spelling Freedom From Russian Extortion in Europe

Bob Adelmann February 26, 2016

For Russia's natural gas customers, the supplies of liquefied natural gas coming from the United States are more than welcome. They spell freedom....

Trump’s Apple Boycott Misses the Mark

C. Mitchell Shaw February 21, 2016

Donald Trump has waded into the battle between the Justice Department and Apple over smartphone encryption. The controversial presidential candidate has called for...

Fighting for Privacy: Apple Resists Order to Decrypt Terrorist’s iPhone

C. Mitchell Shaw February 19, 2016

Earlier this week, a District Court Judge ordered Apple to build a backdoor into the encryption software used in the iOS platform used...

Agreement to Cut Oil Production Fades, Along With Crude Prices

Bob Adelmann February 16, 2016

A so-called agreement to limit oil production to help boost prices faded almost immediately, along with stock and oil prices, when it was...

Einstein’s Gravitational Waves Finally Detected

Charles Scaliger February 13, 2016

A century after they were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational waves — the cosmic "signatures" of massive disruption of...

Chesapeake Energy Claims It’s Not Declaring Bankruptcy

Bob Adelmann February 9, 2016

The collapsing oil and natural gas prices plus the “straight line” thinking that drove Chesapeake Energy to its present precarious position is putting...