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• Shale Oil and Natural Gas - Whose Bubble is Really About to Burst?

  

  Texas Shale natural gas drilling rig near Alvarado, Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the more interesting phenomena related to the media coverage of the oil and natural gas industry in recent [...] more>>

  David Blackmon,Contributor

• Elon Musk Rallies Employees To Take On Texas Auto Dealers

  A source close to Tesla just forwarded me an email Elon Musk sent to all employees of the company earlier today. [...] more>>

  Hannah Elliott,Forbes Staff

• Debating The Concept Of Golden Ears With Clive Davis

  Clive Davis sat down with me last month to discuss his autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life, which is now in its fifth week on the New York Times Best Sellers list. In addition to discussing his memoir, though, the legendary music executive spent some time talking about the notion of 'Golden Ears,' a concept that's mentioned frequently in his book. [...] more>>

  Zack O'Malley Greenburg,Forbes Staff

• Prices are up. Buyer demand is strong. Looks like an opportune time for sellers to jump back into the market.

  

  Could home owners who’ve been stuck on the sidelines for years – but who’d now really like to sell – finally be inching their way back into the game? Have they seen the headlines and nightly news reports about rebounding [...] more>>

  realtor.com,Contributor

• Shares In Chinese Billionaire's Engineering Firm Fall After Profit Drops

  Shares in Wison Engineering Services, China's largest non-government controlled engineering construction firm for the chemicals and energy-extraction industries, fell 3.4% in Hong Kong on Thursday after the company posted a 10% drop in 2012 net profit. Wison's earnings fell to $75 million, on sales that declined by 2.9% to $790 million. [...] [...] more>>

  Russell Flannery,Forbes Staff

• Fracking Sand MLP Crushes It With 10% Yield

  A big supplier of the sand used in fracking is a master limited partnership that just came public last August: Houston-based Hi-Crush Partners L.P. [...] more>>

  John Dobosz,Forbes Staff

• T-Mobile Tears Up Service Contracts And Adds The iPhone

  The fourth-place operator has announced new network plans and devices in a bid to reinvent itself. [...] more>>

  Parmy Olson,Forbes Staff

• The Housing Bubble Is Back

  Cullen Roche is worried that the trajectory of housing prices might deviate from what practical assumptions would predict

  Real estate returns are not rocket science.  Because they’re such a huge portion of the consumer balance sheet they tend to be tied very closely to wage growth.  Wage growth, by [...]

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  Karl Smith,Contributor

• Clive Davis Takes Forbes Inside The Soundtrack of His Life

  FORBES sat down with Davis to discuss his book last week at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. For those of you who haven't had time to read the 608-page tome, we've captured a few of the volume's better anecdotes--including Janis Joplin's attempts to physically consummate her record deal--on video. [...] more>>

  Zack O'Malley Greenburg,Forbes Staff

• A How-to, When-to Guide For Airplane Vigilantes

  How different the past 12 years of American history might be if on September 11, 2001, airline passengers were as willing to intervene as they are now. [...] more>>

  Henry I. Miller,Contributor

• The Best Cities For New College Grads In 2013

  

  With median apartment rents of just $800, Atlanta is a great city for new grads. We’ve all heard the stories or experienced them first-hand. The 24-year-old with a political science degree working as [...] more>>

  Susan Adams,Forbes Staff

• The Texas Shale Oil & Gas Revolution - Leading the Way to Enhanced Energy Security

  Last week, we talked about the Eagle Ford Shale, and what a blessing it is for Texas and Texans. In this piece, we will expand that discussion to talk about how the massive production coming out of the Eagle Ford and other oil and gas shale plays in Texas are [...] [...] more>>

  David Blackmon,Contributor

• Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, And Outer Space Go Green For St. Patrick's Day

  Hot after painting pyramids and Eiffel Tower green, the Irish set their sights on Outer Space. [...] more>>

  David Monagan,Contributor

• Doing Life For A White-Collar Crime - The Tale of Christian Allmendinger

  Christian Allmendinger, founder of A and O Life Fund, was found guilty at trial in 2011 and received a prison term of 45 years. This was his first brush with the law, and apparently his last. [...] more>>

  Walter Pavlo,Contributor