oil boom

Rob Port April 28, 2015 0

"We can't export. We can't access the world market." That's Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, speaking during a recent...

Rob Port March 2, 2015 0

Back in December I wrote a post headlined, "The End Of North Dakota’s Oil Boom Is Here." It generated a...

Rob Port February 4, 2015 0

Remember last year when the New York Times published a lengthy series of articles casting North Dakota's Republican-dominated state government as...

Rob Port January 26, 2015 0

I've posted previously about what looked to be a big decline in the number of bills introduced in the 2015...

Rob Port January 18, 2015 0

North Dakota's oil boom is over. I don't think there's any disputing that fact. That's not to say that we're...

Rob Port December 27, 2014 0

I think North Dakota's oil boom is over, and the closing of a business in Williston has convinced me that...

Rob Port November 26, 2014 0

Reuters market analyst John Kemp writes about that New York Times story focusing on North Dakota's oil development from earlier this week,...

Rob Port October 22, 2014 0

You can tell it is an election year. There are all kinds of polls being done (my household answered more...

Rob Port September 22, 2014 0

There's no question that housing shortages are a big issue in North Dakota. Booming population growth, uncertain capital, and a...

Rob Port September 19, 2014 0

I often get asked why I'm so skeptical of demands for ever-increasing oil patch spending. I'll tell you that it's...