The market was supposed to save the planet. That, at least, was the argument of many economists grappling with the problem of climate change. As…
Oil Prices
Introduction Top events in 2015 that shaped the world and are very likely to continue doing so include the economic slowdown not just in China…
The IMF is the leading international monetary agency whose public purpose is to maintain the stability of the global financial system through loans linked to proposals designed…
– The threat of war against Iran is not just about its natural resources, strategic control and supposedly to protect Israel, it is also about…
In late October, we noted that for the second time this year, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the biggest exporter of crude to China. Russia also took the…
MOSS, Norway — Like many Europeans, Marianne Haaland Bogdanoff, a travel agency manager in this southern Norwegian town, does not go to church, except maybe…
I’m a vampire, baby, suckin’ blood from the earth. Well, I’m a vampire, babe, sell you twenty barrels worth. -Neil Young (Vampire Blues) Oil is…
Usually, we don’t stop to think about how the whole economy works together. A major reason is that we have been lacking data to see…
The plunge of global oil prices began in June 2014, when benchmark Brent crude was selling at $114 per barrel. It hit bottom at $46 this January,…
Deborah Lawrence had been watching a once-empty parking lot near Midland-Odessa, Texas, fill up with idled drilling rigs usually at work plumbing for oil in…
The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows. Oil production in…
How easy it is to forget there are limits to growth, especially when what you observe is designed to make us forget. The great Marcellus…