How should a well-fed American react when some of the world’s poorest citizens in Haiti and Bangladesh riot over the rising price of food?
Category Archives: energy
Some more unwelcome developments
New bankruptcies as consumer sentiment deteriorates.
Oil and the Great Moderation
Another interesting paper presented at the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Symposium that I attended last week was by
Anton Nakov of the Bank of Spain and Andrea Pescatori of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on the role that changes in energy markets may have played in the reduction in GDP and inflation volatility observed since 1984.
Downturn in auto sales continues
Automobile sales do not bode well for first-quarter GDP.
Another 75
How much ammo is left in that fed funds gun?
$100 a barrel
Crude oil reached a record high on Tuesday, and there’s an embarrassing oversupply of theories to explain why.
Sky’s eye over the Arabian Desert
The Oil Drum calls our attention to Satellite O’er the Desert, a website devoted to trying to interpret Google satellite images from Saudi Arabia.
Wikipedia page on Oil Megaprojects
Stuart Staniford and colleagues continue to provide a great service for the rest of us in compiling the facts about new oil discoveries.
November auto sales down modestly
Weakness in autos, but it’s not as bad as it could be.
Relief on oil supplies
We’re finally starting to see signs of gains in global oil production.