What We Can Expect with Crude Oil Future Prices

With well over a century of steady usage of crude oil, it is fairly easy to predict some of the recurring trends in the rise and fall of crude oil future prices. Here are some examples of changes that we can anticipate to occur right on schedule.

Engaging Economic Efficiency Efforts Evaluated

Every Nation has economic challenges and must deal with change. Just like in the Universe change is a constant. In the United States we have changes occurring with industry trends. Some cities have issues with changing job categories, shifts in manufacturing jobs moving from 30% to 17% to 10% and then those jobs being replaced by robots or retail or service sector which typically pays less.

Enhancing Agricultural Productivity and Competitiveness

Promoting agricultural productivity and competitiveness. Investment in agriculture – fishing, forestry, irrigation and drainage, agricultural trade, and agribusiness – has increased significantly. Rural infrastructure, which is integrally linked to rural development, has received the largest amount of investment

Agriculture & Rural Development

Agriculture is essential to reducing poverty, with a 34 percent share of GDP in low income countries. Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas and 2.1 billion survive on less than $2 a day. Over 80 percent of the rural poor depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods

Ruined Rural Economy – Frog Vision Part-10

The article debates about the narrow approach with which most of the third world countries leaders are working. They are managing national economies from one crisis to another with out realising long term effect on common man.

Is a Recession Likely for UK Economy?

With growth forecasts in the UK currently of 3% it seems highly speculative to start talking of a recession in the UK. However there are certain factors that cause an element of concern.

Where Does The Money Come From

The one question nobody asks, and the one driving force that defines the sad state of the world today. The fact is, nobody knows, apart from a very few. But there are a few things we do know. We know that the money supply has been increasing world-wide at around 7.5% per year, and that local governments do not create any of it. And we know that all new money is issued by the banking system as interest-bearing debt. This truly is a curious state of affairs whereby someone somewhere is creating all this new money out of thin air and selling it to us through the banks at high interest.

Geographic Shift in Plant Locations of U.S.- Canadian Automotive Industry

In a recent paper circulated by leading Canadian automotive analyst Dennis DesRosiers, he pointed out that transportation costs and uncertainty about long delays at the Detroit-Windsor border crossing were pushing automotive manufacturers and suppliers away from the region - a drain that's already clear in southwestern Ontario and southeastern Michigan.

The Detroit River Tunnel Partnership

The Detroit River Tunnel Partnership (DRTP) is poised to build a new, high-capacity rail tunnel under the Detroit River to provide improved freight service between the United States and Canada. The DRTP is an equal partnership between Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and Borealis Infrastructure Trust.

5 Economic Tests for Joining the Euro

Before deciding whether the UK should join the Euro the Chancellor, Gordon Brown drew up 5 economic tests which the UK must pass for the UK to join. The main principle behind these 5 economic tests was whether the UK would cope with a common monetary policy. The 5 tests are in some ways superfluous. The main test being is really whether the UK has a degree of economic harmonisation with the rest of Europe.

Ruined Rural Economy India - Metal Or Stomach Part 5

The article debates about the various pros and cons of last three anti-farmer budgets and its effect on common man. The various factors which ruined farming sector are analyzed. It discusses the need of debt economy for students, farmers and other common man. It suggests various measures to prevent further retardation of agro sector.

You Would Think Living in an Oil Rich Country Should Make Energy Costs Cheaper for Their People?

I went to fill up my car a few days ago and saw that the cost per liter of gas at $101.9. For those of you who are not on the metric system, that would equal roughly $3.57 a gallon. In Canada, the province of Alberta is booming, not because they just have wonderful beef, but the oil industry is flourishing beyond belief.

Sub-Prime Lending Disaster Cometh

In the late 1980s and early 1990s we had the junk bonds and the S & L Scandals and now we have a crisis in the sub-prime lending banking sub-sector. During the height of the real-estate bubble too many loans were being made to folks who had marginal or less than marginal credit. Loans were made well above the actual equity value. Now the equity in many folk's homes has dropped by 20 percent or more, where does that leave the lenders?