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Tag Archives: Saudi Arabia
Eight Pieces of Our Oil Price Predicament
A person might think that oil prices would be fairly stable. Prices would set themselves at a level that would be high enough for the majority of producers, so that in total producers would provide enough–but not too much–oil for … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged Libya, low oil price, OPEC, recession, Saudi Arabia
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Our Investment Sinkhole Problem
We are used to expecting that more investment will yield more output, but in the real world, things don’t always work out that way. In Figure 1, we see that for several groupings, the increase (or decrease) in oil consumption … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged debt defaults, GDP growth, investment, investments, limits to growth, oil price, recession, Saudi Arabia
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What the new 2011 EIA oil supply data shows
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released full-year 2011 world oil production data. In this post, I would like show some graphs of recent data, and provide some views as to where this leads with respect to future production. … Continue reading
Posted in Oil and Its Future
Tagged Iran, Iraq, Libya, oil production, oil supply, Russia, Saudi Arabia, world oil supply
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