What do triple digit oil prices mean for growth?
Photo: paulswansen via Flickr. Can we still expect to see sustained economic recoveries when oil, the world’s principal source of energy, is trading in triple digit range? As I argued several years ago...
View ArticleThe price for energy independence
Photo: futureatlas.com/Flickr. Move over OPEC, North America is about to become a net exporter of oil. At least that’s the supposed good news from the International Energy Agency’s latest outlook....
View ArticleWill Syria bring an oil shock?
Photo: FreedomHouse/Flickr. Is the Middle East about to deliver another oil shock to the global economy? The U.S. military has targets picked out in Syria and President Obama is trying to convince...
View ArticlePeak oil pulled a fast one on me
Twilight of the fracking gods? Photo: Imahornfan/Flickr. I don’t know about you, but I’ll admit that I was completely caught off guard by the recent (and ongoing?) crash in oil prices. It’d be a...
View ArticlePeak oil pulled a fast one on me
Twilight of the fracking gods? Photo: Imahornfan/Flickr. I don’t know about you, but I’ll admit that I was completely caught off guard by the recent (and ongoing?) crash in oil prices. It’d be a...
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