Treasury reveals its emissions target

The New Zealand Herald has a story about how Treasury adviced the Government it should have set its greenhouse gas emission levels 15% above 1990 levels. The news comes after the Government announced plans last week to reduce emissions by 10-20% of 1990 levels by 2020. Trade Minister Tim Groser will take the proposal to Bonn [...]

Introducing Mark Weldon and the NZX

This is a couple of months old but Commodify Me! would like draw your attention to a story which appeared in the Otago Daily Times in May about the New Zealand Stock Exchange and its chief executive Mark Weldon. The ODT story mentions NZX’s establishment and sale of a registry for tradeable carbon credits, its [...]

NZ to cut greenhouse emissions by up to 20%

The Dominion Post has a story about what the impact and cost of tackling climate change will have on New Zealand: The cost of doing our bit in the battle against climate change will be $27 a week each by 2020 as the Government prepares to sign Kiwis up to a global pact. But it [...]

Goldman Sachs’ role in oil speculation and other market manipulation detailed

There’s an interesting story in Rolling Stone magazine by Matt Taibbi about how former investment bank Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. While Commodify Me! would thoroughly recommend that you read all of Taibbi’s  story, the parts that will interest commodity exchange fanatics the most are  page five, which details  how Goldman’s [...]