Economy
Top Five Factors Affecting Oil Prices In 2015
As we ring in the New Year, let’s take stock of where we are at with the oil markets. 2014 proved to be a momentous ……Read More
Economy
Economy
Saudi Arabia and Its Oil Production Capability – An Insider’s Viewpoint
While the mainstream media has long forgotten WikiLeaks and its release of United States Embassy cables, there is one key cable from December 2007 that ……Read More
Economy
The Delicate Balance of Supply and Demand in the World’s Oil Markets
The most recent plunge in oil prices caught most of the world by surprise, however, given the short-term market supply and demand fundamentals, a price ……Read More
Economy
The Bursting of the Generational Housing Market Bubble
A paper by Dowell Myers and SungHo Ryu at the University of Southern California looks at what could be the ultimate bursting of the housing ……Read More
Economy
Moving Freight A Leading Indicator of Economic Health
There is an interesting leading economic indicator that gets very little attention from the mainstream media. Most often, the mainstream media uses a combination of ……Read More
Economy
Why Are Consumers Pessimistic?
While consumer sentiment has, in general, been on the upswing since the Great Recession, as we can see in this chart from FRED, even at ……Read More