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In response to the list of questions I submitted to him last week, I got an e-mail from Alloy Steel CEO Gene Kostecki a couple of hours ago...

U.S. Energy Corp.'s partner Brigham Exploration reports : AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - 10/16/09) - Brigham Exploration Company (NASDAQ:BEXP...

On the off chance any of you have a question for the Hank Reardon of wear plates, leave it in the comment thread below. Mr. Kostecki has app...

Today I spoke with U.S. Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: USEG ) CEO Keith Larsen, CFO Scott Lorimer, and Director of Investor Relations Reggie Larsen, ...

Shares of U.S. Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: USEG ) rose about 32% today on about 13x average volume on the news that the company had entered into ...

The company (OTC BB: AYSI.OB ) swung to a loss of ($437,951) on sales of $1,307,160 in the quarter ending June 30 th , but the 10-Q include...

In a post last week ( "Matt Taibbi versus Goldman Sachs" ), I wrote, Taibbi takes the hedge fund manager [Michael] Masters at his ...

The collapse in zinc prices last year lead to some mining companies closing their zinc mines. Yesterday, Reuters reported that Hudbay Minera...

James Kynge laid out his thesis for China's continuing growth in the wake of declining exports in a recent Financial Times column, ...

Below is an excerpt from the China-related part of Peter Zeihan's column The Geography of Recession . China's core is the farmland o...

Hat tip to Aaron Edelheit (with a second assist to Paul Kedrosky ) for this article by Chris Turner in the Walrus magazine (which looks l...

China's exports were down 22.6% year-over-year in April, continuing a six month negative trend. That's the obvious cloud in China...

Alloy Steel International (OTC BB: AYSI.OB ) filed its 10-Q today ( summary ; full filing ). Another break-even quarter: $39,000 of net inco...

This is a one year chart comparing the U.S. Natural Gas ETF (NYSE: UNG ) to a Gulf Coast natural gas 1 royalty trust I own a few shares of,...

That is, of course, the title of one of the classic submarine movies 1 , but it's also a fitting description of the current investor rel...

Tools and ideas for short sellers, including an automated calculator and screener based on the Altman models. In a couple of recent posts ( ...

In a post last fall ( "An Unprecedented Investment in Food Security" ), we noted the report by the Financial Times that the Korea...

Hat tip to Aaron Edelheit for this PDF of Matt Simmons's PowerPoint presentation to the Commercial Club of Boston last month: "The...

Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder letter (PDF) was released today. Berkshire's decline in book value in 2008 was less than I ...

Ugly tape for Alloy Steel International (OTC BB: AYSI.OB ) on a down day. Looks like a flat-lining EKG. No company-specific news today, but ...