New EIA Energy Link -- May 18, 2015

Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) launched a redesigned International Energy Portal to improve access to international energy data and trends in global energy markets. The portal can be viewed at: http://www.eia.gov/beta/international/.

With most of the future growth in energy consumption expected to occur outside of the United States and with increasingly interconnected world energy markets, a clear perspective on the international energy landscape is critically important, and EIA’s redesigned International Energy Portal makes it easier to gain insight into global energy developments,” said EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski. 

This is all very interesting. I have opined for quite some time that global energy would be the big story of the 21st century. Along with water.

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I'll Gladly Pay You Thursday For A Hamburger Today

This is almost hilarious. Just after Greece used its IMF reserves to pay back the debt it owed the International Money Fund (that's how the story read), Greece now wants to take maturing Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank to pay the European Stability Mechanism, and then Greece would pay back the ECB over the "long term."

"We are proposing, in the last period, what many specialists are proposing internationally: for the ESM to intermediate, to pay the ECB and then the Greek state can repay the ESM over the long term after an agreement with our lenders," he said.

And that's probably exactly what will happen. If you buy me a hamburger today, I'll gladly you pay you Thursday.

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Hemingway While Yahoo!Mail Is Down

Link here to a most interesting essay (2011) on A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, edited by Sean Hemingway, c. 2009. 

It begins:

Fifty years ago, Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand. The quintessentially American writer—and poster bear for burly masculinity—is undergoing one of his periodic revivals, spurred not only by the anniversary of his suicide but by Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, set in the 1920s Left Bank of Hemingway’s heavily fictionalized memoir A Moveable Feast, and The Paris Wife, Paula McLain’s novel about Hadley, the writer’s wife during the period chronicled in Feast.

And that dot will lead you to an interesting essay on Marilyn Monroe.