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Recent economic news: Oil prices

1.
The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond
Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including ...
USD, Iraq, United States, Oil prices, Afghanistan, All keywords...
washingtonpost.com
18 hours ago
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The miracle of the cerrado : Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in ...
Brazil, America, Africa, Embrapa, India, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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How to feed the world : The emerging conventional wisdom about world farming is gloomy. There is an alternative
THE world is planting a vigorous new crop: “agro-pessimism”, or fear that mankind will not be able to feed itself except by wrecking the environment. The current harvest of this ...
Brazil, Food, America, Club of Rome, Pakistan, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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The miracle of the cerrado : Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
IN A remote corner of Bahia state, in north-eastern Brazil, a vast new farm is springing out of the dry bush. Thirty years ago eucalyptus and pine were planted in ...
Brazil, America, Africa, Embrapa, India, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
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How to feed the world : The emerging conventional wisdom about world farming is gloomy. There is an alternative
THE world is planting a vigorous new crop: “agro-pessimism”, or fear that mankind will not be able to feed itself except by wrecking the environment. The current harvest of this ...
Brazil, Food, America, Club of Rome, Pakistan, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
6.
BP: A near-death experience
One chief executive overboard, a $17bn loss over the past three months and $32bn in clear-up costs. No doubt about it: BP has got off lightly for its part in ...
BP, United States, Oil, Barack Obama, President, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 month ago
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Asia needs to fully wake up to the scale of the West's economic crisis
The news from Japan, China, and the Pacific tigers has moved from awful to calamitous since the global industrial system snapped in October. A raw reality is being laid bare. ...
Asia, China, Japan, USD, Taiwan, All keywords...
telegraph.co.uk
2 months ago
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Oil Companies Reap Billions From Subsidies
Over the last 10 years, oil companies have also been aggressive in using foreign tax havens. Many rigs, like Deepwater Horizon, are registered in Panama or in the Marshall Islands, ...
USD, United States, Transocean, Robert Menendez, New Jersey, All keywords...
nytimes.com
2 months ago
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Japanese executive pay: Spartan salarymen
It is the season of annual shareholder meetings in Japan. On June 29th alone 1,087 companies’ bosses faced their investors. Many Japanese companies hold their meetings simultaneously as a holdover ...
Japan, USD, Executive, United States, Shinsei Bank, All keywords...
economist.com
2 months ago
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Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs
Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in a push to socialism as President Hugo Chavez struggles with lower ...
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, PDVSA, Payne, Helmerich, All keywords...
news.yahoo.com
2 months ago
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Emerging economies 'to enjoy food production boom'
The emerging economies of Brazil, India, China and Russia will enjoy an agricultural boom over the next decade as production stalls in Western Europe, a report says. Agricultural output in ...
OECD, United Nations, Food production boom, United Kingdom, Dairy products, All keywords...
news.bbc.co.uk
2 months ago
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Consumer prices drop for 2nd straight month
Consumer prices fell for the second straight month, extending a break for Americans' pocketbooks. Less expensive energy bills were the main factor pulling down prices.
US Federal Reserve, USD, WASHINGTON, Less expensive energy bills, Department of Labor, All keywords...
msnbc.msn.com
2 months ago
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Macroeconometrics in the Mountains
Evidence on the Predictability of Oil Prices for US GDP, by Phillip Rothman, East Carolina University, and Francesco Ravazzolo, Norges Bank. Discussant: Vincent Labhard, European Central Bank Fac
Jim Hamilton, Christian Kascha, United States, Oil, Charles Engel, All keywords...
econbrowser.com
2 months ago
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Calling recessions in real time
From the paper's abstract: This paper surveys efforts to automate the dating of business cycle turning points. Doing this on a real time, out-of-sample basis is a bigger challenge than ...
National Bureau of Economic Research, GDP, Marcelle Chauvet, Jeremy Piger, Al Gore, All keywords...
econbrowser.com
3 months ago
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Exxon Mobil (XOM) Dividend Stock Analysis
Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. The company is a component of the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials and ...
Mobil, Exxon Mobil Corporation, USD, XTO Energy, Natural gas, All keywords...
dividendgrowthinvestor.com
3 months ago
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