I've seen a focus in the United States on mass political action in the past year like nothing I've seen in my lifetime. From the huge crowds at Barack Obama's campaign rallies and the unprecedented...
Hong Kong is a global financial center, and a city famous for its “laissez-faire” economic policy. However, it is also a city with one of the highest income gaps in the world. The United...
A friend of mine, X, lives in a town called Y. She resides in a relatively egalitarian neighbourhood that is a far cry from the faceless “gated communities” that are so popular with certain...
In the United States, oil prices will go up this summer - surprise! For much of the American media, this is a headline. For most US consumers, it is something that happens fairly regularly - albeit...
The total world demand for oil reached 85.71 million barrels per day (mbd) in 2005. The main consumers were North America that accounted for 30.6 percent (or 25.65 mbd), the Pacific and Asia,...
Politics influenced the final outcome of bargaining for Unocal. China lost, but we can expect it to retaliate. On April 4, directors of Unocal, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company (rated by the...
Three giant trading blocs account for more than one half of the value of world’s trade at current prices. The biggest is the European Union (EU-15) whose intra-trade in 2001 was worth $1,418...
