Solonex Management Inc. is engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling alternative, renewable and waste energy technologies. The company is focused on two products currently – the Thermal Destructor and the Steam Injection System.

The company’s Thermal Destructor is a self contained soil residue combustion system designed to clean contaminated sites by sterilizing the soil. The device consists of a high-efficiency, waste or gas-fired combustion chamber and a new generation scrubber which traps pollutants in air emissions. Applications would include cleaning hydrocarbon spills at the end of the life of a producing well.

Solonex’s Steam Injection System is a derivative technology of the Thermal Destructor. It utilizes knowledge gained from the development of the Thermal Destructor to create a quick deployment, mobile, high temperature and high pressure steam generation unit system.

The company’s Steam Injection System is being developed for use by the oil sands and shale-heavy oil mining industry. The system is

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Fuel Systems Solutions Inc. (a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FSYS"FSYS/a) is in the whole alternative fuel/vehicle arena. This is an interesting space to me right now as prices remain depressed, while the two main drivers for their business (1. Potential for conventional fuel prices to spike again, and 2. Alternative energy/fuels gain traction in Washington. (a href="http://briskycapital.blogspot.com/2009/07/nat-gas-act-introduced-in-senate.html"NAT GAS act has reached the senate/a)). To me, these two are both there, and could very well both happen in a big way. First, lets take a quick step back for a description of the company(this is all directly from Yahoo Finance):br /br /ulliFuel Systems Solutions, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and supply of alternative fuel components and systems for use in the transportation, industrial, and power generation industries. Its components and systems control the pressure and flow of gaseous alternative fuels, such as propane and natural gas used in internal combustion engines./liliThe ...

Idiocracy in action: Congress blocks bill to audit the Fed… No surprise: American loan defaults hit record… Surprise: Could Canadians be next? China takes another “World’s No. 1” from U.S. … Dan Denning, Byron King on recent triumph and tragedy in the oil patch…

Great news: The Federal Reserve will retain its right to operate in secrecy.

“Thank God for Rule 16!”

Late yesterday, the Senate majority put the kibosh on a last-hour provision in the 2010 spending bill that would audit the Fed. Not because it’s a bad idea… but because of the arcane Rule 16, which prohibits policy legislation from being added to spending bills. (The kind of “rule” that’s only evoked when the majority gets uncomfortable.)

“The Federal Reserve will create and disburse trillions of dollars in response to our current financial crisis,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, who spearheaded

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I'm starting to look at picking up some deals in stocks that will perform well when the economy picks up again. One of those is Norfolk Southern (a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nsc"NSC/a). Railroads were hot over the past five years, largely due to soaring energy prices. When Warren Buffett started investing in railroads, its seemed everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. I've done some research on a few of the majors, and I like Norfolk Southern the best. They all will be in pretty good shape when the economy rebounds, and the thesis is mostly the same for each. I did some work on NSC a couple of weeks ago when I did a piece for Fund my Mutual Fund. a href="http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2009/04/road-to-recovery-lets-see-what-old.html"You can read that here/a. br /br /I wanted to pass along a a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/It-Will-Get-Better-Norfolk-prnews-15247762.html?.v=1"nice quote from their CEO/a at the annual meeting that sums ...

How to Become a Market Timing Expert

by Alexander Green, Oxford Club Investment Director

With the recent movements in the markets making many question whether we’re moving up or down, market timing comes into question. A few weeks ago, our Chairman and Investment Director Alexander Green penned an article on market timing for Oxford Club subscribers…

At the Investment U Conference in St. Petersburg, FL a few weeks ago, my good friend and colleague Mark Skousen called me out.

He told the audience that I was opposed to market timing, but laughed and insisted I was one of the best market timers he knew.

“He railed against the housing bubble four years ago - and he was right!” Skousen declared. “He called oil at $140 a barrel a joke - and he was right again! He has been insisting for weeks that the market was oversold and now it puts on

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ast week, I gave you the numbers on previous bear and bull markets in the U.S. And I told you about some strategies that can work together to both protect you from downside market action and position you for the market’s long-term recovery. In previous Money and Markets issues, I explained how two of those strategies — dollar cost averaging and dividend reinvestment — work. Today, I want to tell you more about a third strategy — using inverse exchange-traded funds to protect your income stocks from market downdrafts. First, a quick refresher on inverse ETFs: Like other exchange-traded funds, they hold a basket of ...

If there’s one lesson you can take away from this financial crisis, it’s this: Whenever the U.S. Federal Reserve squares off against the financial markets, it ends up as the loser. In recent weeks, I’ve written several articles suggesting that the credit crisis isn’t over and detailed the three indicators that led me to this conclusion - despite what the politicians, the pundits and all the other so-called "experts" would have you believe. Now, there’s a fourth. It should come as no surprise that there’s more distressed debt trading right now than at any other point in history - nearly $184 billion worth. And that’s just the "official" tally; we know that the actual total is much higher - it just hasn’t been fully tallied and reported, yet. Historically, large levels of distressed debt have preceded record numbers of bankruptcy ...

The employment situation release seems like old news, and Jim has already teased out some of the most important aspects in his post. However, I thought a little more context would be useful, given that some observers still think a recession can be avoided. From the White House economy fact sheet (accessed 9/7/08):

On September 5, 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new jobs figures for August. Nonfarm payroll employment decreased by 84,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent. While these numbers are disappointing, what is most important is the overall direction the economy is headed. Last week, the economy posted a strong gain of 3.3 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, led by growth in consumer spending, exports, and a well-timed and appropriately sized stimulus package. This level of growth demonstrates the resilience of the economy in the face

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Labor Day is around the corner, so we can expect low volume.  That should lead to more volatility this week -- up, down or both -- but it may not count for much in the long term.  This is a good week for watching and waiting.

News of Interest

ECONOMY

U.S. and Global Economies Slipping in Unison

Only a few months ago, some economists still offered hope that robust expansion could continue in much of the world even as the United States slowed. Foreign investment was expected to keep replenishing American banks still bleeding from their disastrous bets on real estate and to provide money for companies looking to expand. Overseas demand for American goods and services was supposed to continue compensating for waning demand in the States. Now, high energy prices, financial systems crippled by fear, and

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by Edward Hugh : BarcelonaAccording to preliminary data from national statistics office ISTAT this morning Italy's GDP fell 0.3 percent in the second quarter compared with the first three months of the year and was unchanged year-on-year (ie zero percent annual growth). Final data and a detailed breakdown for the second quarter will be released on Sept. 10. In the first quarter, GDP rose 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter and increased 0.3 percent year-on-year.European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet stated yesterday that economic growth was expected to be "particularly weak" in the third quarter after bank policy makers left borrowing costs at 4.25 percent, so it is not unreasonable to anticipate a second consecutive quarter of negative growth in Q3, and hence in all probability Italy is now in recession.Italian consumer ...