East-West Energy Chronicle

From the perspective of Chicago during the Gilded Age of the robber barons, economist Thorstein Veblen wrote in The Theory of Business Enterprise that business cycles were the result of manipulation and not natural market processes. This peculiar but very influential conjecture was predicated on the belief in the “machine” as paradigmatic for the modern [...]

European energy companies have grabbed the headlines recently with mega-deals for Gulf of Mexico oil and gas projects, but Asian energy companies are quietly expanding their presence in the U.S. The deals may be smaller, but carry an outsized importance for resource-starved countries like Japan and Korea, which are picking up mostly older oil and [...]

中加贸易2007年激增
OTTAWA — The rate of Canadian exports to China surpassed that of any other G7 country, and this year put China neck-and-neck with Japan as Canada’s third largest export market.
According to a recent report by Stats Canada in the Canadian Economic Observer, Canada’s exports to China surged 43 percent in 2007 from the same period [...]

环保科技会带来下次的商业景气：阿省有机会变成全球领导
Sydney Sharpe
Special to The Edmonton Journal
Monday, November 05, 2007
Despite our provincial wealth, Alberta often seems beset by the turmoil American historian William Leuchtenburg famously labeled as “the perils of prosperity.”
The many challenges of growth, from homelessness to environmental degradation, sometimes make wealth seem more a burden than a blessing.
We fret that it will all end [...]

阿省省议员Ady在中国促进阿省旅游业
(AlbertaIndex, November 5, Monday) — Tourism Promotion Associate Minister Cindy Ady met with Chinese tourism industry and media contacts during the China International Travel Mart (CITM) in Kunming in Yunnan province last week.
Held from October 31 to November 3, CITM has become the largest and most influential annual tourism industry event in Asia and draws [...]