Category: ‘ Economic Security ’

 

Who Cares Where Our Oil Comes From?

Once again, the price of oil is making Americans nervous. In response, today, President Obama set a goal of reducing import oil by one third within 10 years.   As Congress and the president face off over energy policy, we should...

Political Roundup

This week, Congress was once again unable to reach a compromise on a long-term budget, instead passing the sixth short-term continuing resolution (CR) of FY 2011, which will now fund the government through April 8.  While lawmake...

Out with the old?

Dina Maron reports in this morning's ClimateWire that:  "Ethanol is once again in the hot seat."  We say, "good!" One positive outcome of the current focus on our federal deficit and debt woes is that attention must be paid t...

Political Roundup

News of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa continued to dominate headlines this week and fears of rising oil and gas prices were realized here in the United States as oil jumped above $100 a barrel.  This is certainly not...

Here we go again — an oily recession?

Justin Lahart in today's WSJ:  "Rising Oil Prices Raise the Specter of a Double Dip."  Yep.  A year ago, energy-minded folks were wondering whether spring would bring Middle East chaos caused by an Israeli preemptive strike on ...

Oil Trade Deficit Spikes in December

The Census Bureau released December trade deficit data last week, and the picture on oil imports was not reassuring, as one might have expected.  You can access the full report here.  With oil prices averaging $89.15 per barrels...

Here we go again, but this time it’s oil and food prices

This morning's WSJ reports on rising oil prices and rising food prices, which leads us to question:  are our policies serving our interests? First oil prices, as reported by Jerry Dicolo:  "Crude futures settled at a fres...

The way of the world

If you boil the debate about energy policy down to its fundamental core, you can distill two opposing views of the world.  The first says that the free market can and will solve all problems.  The benefits and disadvantages of a...

Critical ARPA-E program surviving narrowly, so far

As Congress continues to barely fulfill its key constitutional duty to appropriate funds for the operation of the government, a continuing resolution (CR) that passed the House yesterday at least holds out some hope that one of ...

Connecting the Dots in Business Week

This week’s Bloomberg Business Week—increasingly a favorite airplane read of ours, by the way—contains its usual mix of digestible insights on politics, markets, and technology.  But two articles stand out as particularly i...
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