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This morning, Exxon (XOM) announced that it’s spending $41 billion to acquire XTO Energy (XTO), a major player in natural gas and unconventional shale.

The move was somewhat telegraphed by a major presentation Exxon made explaining why it was bullish on natural gas.

Here’s how Exxon explains why XTO Energy is the prefect company to make its play.

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• Exxon: Here’s Why We Just Spent $41 Billlion On Natural Gas (XOM, XTO, UNG)
• Mega-Merger: Exxon Makes Huge Natural Gas Bet With Acquisition Of XTO Energy For $41 Billion (XOM, XTO)
• XTO Energy (XTO): $4.2B Hunt Deal Good Fit, Accretive

Gluskin-Sheff economist David Rosenberg has been warning of a ‘new frugality’ lately, pointing to the huge, coming downdraft in debt.

He posts a chart meant to illustrate the fact that we’re merely in the “early innings” of debt deleveraging.

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HOW FAR INTO THE DELEVERAGING PROCESS ARE WE?  
Early innings.  From the peak, the level of nonfederal debt has deflated by $260
billion.  Some of this has been either paid down, written off, modified, defaulted
on or some combination of the four.  No matter.  

As Chart 1 illustrates, and employing Bob Farrell’s first Market Rule on the time-
honored trend towards mean reversion, this develeraging process that began two
years ago is really in its infancy stage.  The current level of U.S. outstanding
nonfederal debt is $27 trillion, which is astounding both in absolute terms and
even more so relative to nonfederal GDP — a 206% ratio.  It is down fractionally
from the 208% peak, but here is the rub.  If mean-reversion means that we get
back to some norm of the 1990s, then we are talking about the need to extinguish
$8 trillion of nonfederal debt.  The only question is how this happens, not if.  If
we’re talking about mean reverting to the very stable trend of the 1960s and
1970s, then the credit contraction is very likely to exceed $11 trillion.  

Either way, this process of debt elimination is ongoing and will likely last for years. 
Along the way we will see the federal government test the limits of its balance
sheet to smooth the transition and it will be long-term Treasury yields that will
determine when enough is enough in terms of Washington’s fiscal largesse.  Just
as the Canadian bond market delivered the same message to the Chrétien/Martin
government in the mid-1990s that ushered in a multi-year forced era of budgetary
restraint and anemic domestic demand.  Until the U.S. gets its balance sheet
under control, and monetization of the debt is likely one key strategy, the trend in
the gold price will remain in one direction and that is up. 

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• Greek Finance Minister Comes Out Swinging, Hints At Similarities With US Debt Situation
• Niall Ferguson: The World Is In Denial, The Great Repression Lives On
• Rosenberg: The Manufacturing Collapse Has Resumed

We’ve seen the Wii schedule, so now here’s the DS and DSiWare release schedule from Nintendo. The Pokémon remakes HeartGold and SoulSilver now have a definite launch date of March 14. Speaking of Pokemon, the

In August and September 2009 I had talked about how South Korea was shaking up their country by installing additional hydrogen fueling stations. In August it was announced that two separate master planned communities in South Korea would be getting H2 fueling stations.

Then in September I had talked about how South Korea’s first landfill to hydrogen project had begun, which would supply both hydrogen buses and cars through the fueling stations. Now, in December, Air Liquide America Corporation has announced that it will be building two new hydrogen fueling stations in South Korea.

Currently, South Korea has six hydrogen stations operating in Daejeon (2), Seoul, Dong-cho Dong Incheon, Mabuk, and Namyang. The two master plan community hydrogen fueling stations will be located on the islands of KangHwa and OnJin-gun.

The two new H2 filling stations being built by Air Liquide will be built at Jeju island and near the KATRI Gyeonggi-do race track. This will bring the total hydrogen fueling station count up to 10. Only Japan, Germany, Denmark and the U. S. will have more hydrogen fueling stations.

On Jeju island, the Air Liquide hydrogen fueling station (5,000 psi) will be installed at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) as a demonstration and research project. Likewise, the 2nd H2 fueling station will be installed the Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute (KATRI) and will dispense hydrogen at both 5,000 psi and 10,000 psi.

What is certain is that South Korea has made a commitment to developing hydrogen vehicles as a solution to their need to cut down on pollution as well as their dependence from foreign energy. The South Korea Hydrogen Highway system is now taking shape in a cluster model starting around Seoul and expanding to other regions of the country.

We always hear the record labels and politicians screaming bloody murder over the concept that musicians aren’t being paid “what they’re owed” due to piracy — but when there’s a situation where musicians might actually not be getting paid what they’re owed? Silence. A few weeks back, MySpace “bought” Imeem in a fire sale. But, the details of the deal suggest they didn’t actually buy the company, but “certain assets,” which means they get to ignore the liabilities. Guess what those liabilities include? You got it: paying artists what they’re owed. Now, as the Wired article notes, there’s nothing technically wrong with MySpace acquiring just the assets, but it is notable that it’s the musicians left without getting paid what they’re actually owed (not some theoretical concept like what they might be “owed” due to unauthorized file sharing). And, yet, we don’t seem to hear any politicians or record labels screaming about this. Funny, since they keep insisting that they’re really just interested in helping artists…

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Yahoo recently announced a thorough partnership with Facebook that would take the integration between the two services to the next level. Facebook features will show up in most Yahoo products and users will be able to update their status on both sites in one go. Now, Yahoo is clarifying some details about what exactly the deal entails and what it means to the OpenID implementation.

“First off, I want to take the opportunity to clarify some misperceptions that we’ve noticed: the Facebook deal is not a “login” agreement. It will not be possible to sign in to Yahoo! with a Facebook ID. Rather, we’re using Facebook Connect to enable Yahoo! users to authorize data sharing between the sites,” Daniel Raffel, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo Open Strategy, wrote on Yahoo’s Developers blog.

What it basically means is that users will be able to access their data and friends from Facebook in Yahoo sites opening the door to a lot of possibilities but also share anything from Yahoo or one of its many proprieties, Flickr for example, with their friends on Facebook. The way Yahoo spins it, rather accurately, this is actually a great win for Yahoo ID saying that the partnership enables users to access a great deal of content and sites using just their Yahoo credentials.
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