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Finally – and most important – even if Krugman had been “right about everything,” there would still be no justification for the numerous
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and often personal attacks he has made on those who disagree with him.
Moreover, despite what many believe,
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oil is far from being a homogenous product.
There is a fossil carbon continuum ranging from easy, conventional oil, to deep and ultra-deep offshore oil, to extra-heavy
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oil.
In my ongoing quest to become better at forecasting, I began, a few years ago, to pay attention to the five-year forward oil price as it compares to the Brent
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oil spot price, the price of a barrel of oil today.
Nearly all of the Caribbean, Central America, and some Gulf ports in the United States depend on Venezuelan low-sulfur
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oil for their power plants, refineries, and balance-of-payments positions.
The
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output measures that are used, such as the number of medical procedures carried out or the number of fires extinguished, miss a crucial point: while responding to the need for such services is a good thing, reducing the need for them would be better.
The decline in world commodity prices, led by
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oil, has made managing the national budget easier.
On closer scrutiny, what passed as state-of-the-art thinking on economic policy turns out to have been based on some
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rules of thumb.
Since then, governments across the region have resorted to
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repression to keep public discontent and political opponents at bay.
The key will be so-called “second-round effects” – whether growing
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prices lead to higher wage demands from trade unions.
Bilateral trade stands at about $40 billion a year, and China is not only Iran’s largest customer for
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oil, but also a colossal investor – somewhere between $40 billion and $100 billion – in Iran’s energy and transport sectors.
But its $14 billion in annual bilateral trade, and dependence on Iranian oil – many of India’s refineries have been built to run solely on Iranian
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– are key strategic considerations.
The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin – for example, by reducing dependence on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of
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The industry depends mainly on single-serve bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the raw materials for which are derived from
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oil and natural gas.
Now, however, due to the surge in
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oil prices, even Bush has had to begin to consider alternative energy sources, and it won’t be possible to limit these to nuclear power or ethanol, which is so popular among farmers, a key Bush constituency.
After all, the Russian media do not seem more trustworthy, better informed, or more professionally run than in most countries; quite to the contrary, they are owned by a few oligarchs, and their bias and manipulation are both transparent and
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Trying to fine-tune an economic and technical adjustment path would be as futile as trying to control the price of
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oil.
And, more recently, China has started preparing the way for purchases of imported
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oil in renminbi.
For example, earlier this year, it launched a new oil futures market in Shanghai, which seems intended to establish a renminbi-denominated price benchmark alongside Brent and West Texas Intermediate
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When Venter and his team began their effort, genetic engineers had tools that were powerful but, by modern standards,
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In 2014, EU member states spent a staggering €271 billion on foreign
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oil – more than the combined GDP of Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Together with rising
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oil prices, by November this had driven French diesel prices up 16% from the year before.
At the moment, the United States has stepped into the breach, relying on often-Draconian extraterritorial use of its justice system and control of the international banking system to impose a
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frontier justice.
Here, the main partner is China, which Russia now supplies with fertilizers, seafood, timber, nonferrous metals, and increasing volumes of
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oil.
With no institutions left to ensure a peaceful political transition in these countries, violent groups had an advantage over ordinary citizens, and a
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fight for power ensued.
According to the Ministry of Environment of Japan, one hour’s adjustment in 2008 would have led to savings of an estimated 0.910 million kiloliters of
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oil annually.
Compared to Japan’s total energy consumption – 512 million kL of
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oil in 2016 – this is a drop in the bucket.
In general, neither pure austerity nor
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Keynesian stimulus can help countries escape high-debt traps.
In
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monetary terms, the “benefits” of children far outweigh their climate “costs.”
Cheap Oil’s Silver Lining for the GulfBEIRUT – In June 2014, a barrel of Brent
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– the main benchmark of the international oil market – sold for $115.
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