Read them, comment on them, add your own analysis, or add more op-eds. There should be plenty around.
HEK
Do I like polling issues? Why yes, I do. Here’s another good read. Go to the link to the original report to see it all.
HEK
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/likely-voter/423456/
From Resources for the Future. Worth a read.
HEK
This is a good article other than, “Barring some geopolitical catastrophe, the new prices are here to stay.” Hydrocarbon prices are cyclical, as are pretty much all commodity prices. Portfolio theory applies to economies as well as individual investment strategies, i.e., leaning on oil and the loonie isn’t a good idea, as the article says. Even with promoting and growing other sectors, there will be ups and downs, but they will usually be tempered, because it’s rare that all industries go up or down at the same time.
HEK
“There’s no way to quantify whether cheap oil is good for us, because the bad guys lose and good guys win. It doesn’t work that way. There are winners and losers all across the board.”
HEK
Is he correct? What do you think? I can identify with the characterization of adjunct professors as day laborers.
HEK
A few photos taken at the historic Pithole City in the Western PA oil region. It was once a city of 10,000 people with oil derricks practically touching each other. The law of capture prevailed, and much crude was wasted. Now it is a ghost town.
HEK
