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Oil producers can also restrict supply by holding oil inventory in tankers at sea or in other storage facilities.
The market expectations reflected in today’s price reflect lower future demand and increased future supply.
The increase in the future potential supply of oil reflects new output produced by fracking, the development of Canada’s tar sands, and Mexico’s recent decision to allow foreign oil companies to develop the country’s energy sources.
These changes in demand and supply suggest that the future price of oil will be lower than industry participants expected until just a few months ago.
Some of the recent changes in expected future demand and supply could have been anticipated earlier.
When the current abnormally low interest rates on long-term bonds rise over the next few years, it will become more attractive for producers to increase the supply of oil and invest the resulting income at the higher rate.
Unless expectations about the fundamentals of future supply and demand change, the rise in the interest rate will cause oil prices to fall further.
And, although many things in the Middle East are in short supply, there is no dearth of hopeless young people, whose numbers will continue to grow in the coming years.
Economic aid, the opening of the EU and US markets, strategic energy projects, legal and constitutional advice, and cooperation between universities are among the resources that the West must supply if it wants to contribute to the success of the Middle East’s democratic awakening.
The following propositions garnered support from at least 90% of economists: import tariffs and quotas reduce general economic welfare; rent controls reduce the supply of housing; floating exchange rates provide an effective international monetary system; the US should not restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries; and fiscal policy stimulates the economy when there is less than full employment.
Likewise, the proposition that rent controls reduce the supply of housing is violated under conditions of imperfect competition.
While some internal devaluation is being achieved, it is producing so much economic and social dislocation – and, increasingly, political upheaval – that there is no supply response, despite the accompanying structural reforms.
Barriers to private companies’ entry into the agricultural sector will be removed, and farmers will be allowed to grow the crops they want, without official control over supply and demand.
But, in modern global supply chains, there is plenty of opportunity to go around.
While global supply chains have facilitated entry into manufacturing, they have also reduced the gains in terms of value added that accrue at home.
In such economies, tradable services cannot absorb more than a fraction of the labor supply.
ECB critics already claim there has been a certain “follow the Fed” quality to ECB monetary decisions, notwithstanding clear differences between the two central banks over the role the money supply should play in monetary policy decisions.
It is not a good bet for Europe, however, where growth momentum remains strong despite some recent backing and filling after the torrid pace of the second quarter, where interest rates remain too low and money supply growth too high.
Japan has problems on both the supply and the demand side, and in both the real economy and finance.
They supply 50% of the oxygen we breathe, feed billions of people, and provide livelihoods for millions more.
The Fed, through its control of the money supply, has enormous economic power, and such power can easily be abused for political purposes – say, to generate more jobs in the short run.
There is greater concern that cross-border capital mobility makes it harder to collect taxes and enforce financial regulations at home; and that trade agreements, combined with global supply chains, are exacerbating job losses in developed economies.
Others cite OPEC’s failure to agree on supply restrictions.
Neither global markets nor the nation-state can adequately supply them, and sometimes markets and states undermine them.
Meeting those objectives will require both an improvement in energy productivity (the amount of income produced per unit of energy consumed) of at least 3% per year and the rapid decarbonization of energy supply, with the share of zero-carbon energy increasing by at least one percentage point each year.
In some places, new supply contracts have set prices as low as $0.06 per kilowatt hour, making solar power fully competitive with coal and natural gas.
That investment needs to be matched by accelerated progress in battery technology, or by other tools to match electricity demand to intermittent supply.
Not only will consumers face higher costs for autos; the disruption of existing efficient supply chains may even leave the US auto industry as a whole worse off, as it undermines the international competitiveness of North American output.
It is invariably more efficient to build and maintain health-related infrastructure, such as water supply and sanitation systems, clinics, and hospitals, and deliver specialized health care, where population densities are highest – and to create affordable-care networks of community health workers using low-cost technology.
Urban growth in emerging-market countries – and the corresponding concentration of poverty – has challenged and sometimes overwhelmed the capacity of their governments to provide sustainable and affordable housing, water supply and sanitation, solid-waste management services, and education – all of which directly affect urban health – as well as basic health-care services.
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