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Higher Oil Prices Could Jeopardize India’s Economy

Apr 30, 2018 at 15:40 | Tsvetana Paraskova

While oil exporting nations are benefiting from higher oil prices, oil importers face growing crude import bills that affect government finances. India—the world’s third-largest oil importer—is one of the biggest…

Russia May Feel Pinch From Oil Cut Deal This Year

Feb 16, 2018 at 09:13 | Irina Slav

Russia’s economy may come to feel a negative impact from the OPEC-led oil production cut deal, the central bank warned, adding that it expected GDP growth during the first…

Norway’s $1.1 Trillion Wealth Fund Looks For Riskier Investments

Jan 15, 2018 at 13:50 | ZeroHedge

Just over a year ago we noted that, after being forced to withdraw at least $15 billion to fund 2017 budget deficits, the $860 billion Norwegian sovereign wealth fund announced that…

Another Oil Exporter Unpegs From The U.S. Dollar

Jan 11, 2018 at 10:07 | Matt Smith

In an effort to shore up dwindling reserves, Angola has decided to unpeg its currency, the kwanza, from the U.S. dollar - a peg which has been in place

Goldman: Automated Trucks To Cost 300k Jobs Per Year

Nov 14, 2017 at 14:31 | Jon LeSage

While Google’s Waymo company has taken center stage for bringing self-driving cars to roads, autonomous trucking may make it to the mainstream first.  Silicon Valley startups, technologists, and venture capitalists…

Did Venezuela Just Default?

Nov 14, 2017 at 09:13 | Irina Slav

S&P Global Ratings declared Venezuela in default just as the country’s Vice President Tareck El Aissami met with creditors to discuss the restructuring of its debt. According to

Could Low Oil Prices Cause A Global Recession?

Jan 25, 2016 at 14:36 | James Hamilton

The global economy is slipping into recession. The evidence is showing up in all the usual ways: slowing output growth, slumping purchasing-manager indexes, widening credit spreads, declining corporate earnings, falling…

The Clock Is Ticking On The U.S. Dollar As World’s Reserve Currency

Sep 21, 2015 at 16:02 | Henry Hewitt

The View From Hubbert’s PeakIn 1971, the American President put an end to a 2,500 year trend; the Wall Street Journal called it “Nixon’s Worst Weekend.” Considering the…

More To Ruble’s Collapse Than Meets The Eye

Dec 17, 2014 at 14:35 | Colin Chilcoat

The ruble is dying, and fast. In what is now being dubbed ‘Black Monday’ the ruble’s value to the dollar dropped nearly 15 percent. Tuesday brought no respite and the…

How Diminishing Returns and EROI can Lead to Economic Collapse

Dec 12, 2013 at 16:46 | Gail Tverberg

What do diminishing returns, energy return on energy invested (EROI or EROEI), and collapse have to do with each other? Let me start by explaining the connection between Diminishing…

Low Gasoline Prices Bring US Inflation Down to Four Year Low

Nov 21, 2013 at 16:57 | Ed Dolan

A big drop in gasoline prices brought the US inflation rate for October, as measured by year-on-year change in the consumer price index, to just 0.95 percent, its lowest level…

Why Rising Energy Costs are Responsible for Widespread Economic Recession

Oct 25, 2013 at 17:57 | Gail Tverberg

How does the world reach limits? This is a question that few dare to examine. My analysis suggests that these limits will come in a very different way than most…

World Bank: Russian Energy Strength is Economic Weakness

Sep 25, 2013 at 19:16 | Daniel J. Graeber

The head of the World Bank in Russia said Wednesday he was alarmed by the slowdown in the Russian economy.  The bank said the Russian economy was slow to emerge…

Economic Forecasting in a Time of Diminishing Oil Supplies

Sep 23, 2013 at 18:27 | Gail Tverberg

What will the world economy be like ten years from now? Or fifty years from now? Is it something that we can forecast by looking at the past, assuming that…

Clean Energy Damaging Europe’s Competitiveness

Sep 12, 2013 at 18:48 | Global Risk Insights

For years Europe has been at the forefront of the renewable energy revolution, promoting and establishing global rules in this sector. There are signs however that this trend might change.

Lebanon’s Economy Faces Collapse

Sep 06, 2013 at 16:23 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: Lebanon’s economy faces collapse, and foreign bidders on potentially lucrative offshore oil and blocks are about to be disappointed as the conflict in Syria feeds a political stalemate…

Energy Return on Investment is too Low to Maintain Current Economic System

Jun 27, 2013 at 16:59 | Gail Tverberg

My major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already…

NORWAY: Investors Balk at Government Indifference

Apr 05, 2013 at 13:06 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: Norway’s pending plans to cut tariffs on gas transport by 90% will reduce income for pipeline investors by as much as $7 billion, adding to the lingering anxiety…

Russian Oligarchs to (Involuntarily) Fund Cyprus Bailout

Mar 25, 2013 at 18:51 | Charles Kennedy

Negotiations for Cyprus’ bailout, which has hinged largely on its hydrocarbons future, have ended with Russia missing the chance to swap aid for offshore exploration licenses and the Greek Cypriots…

IMF Provides Silver Lining to Iraq Debate

Mar 22, 2013 at 20:04 | Daniel J. Graeber

The International Monetary Fund offered a silver lining to the otherwise scathing barrage of reports out last week critical of the U.S. experiment in Iraq. The IMF said oil production…

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