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Why Oil Prices Are So Volatile
Oil prices have been all over the map this past year: as high as $145 and as low as $30. Here's what's causing the big swings — plus some experts' bets on where prices are headed now. Crude Oil Prices 2000-Present ...
Tags: Volatility, Trader, Price, MoneyWatch, Economics 101, Prices, CFTC, Oil Price Information Service, Investment, Finance, Oil Prices, Oil Markets, Gas Prices, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Oil Speculation, Oil Speculators, Inflation, Airline Industry, Cait Murphy
Articles 2009-09-01

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Housing crunch solution lies in Economics 101.(Viewpoint)
Byline: Greg David When it comes to the economy, most New Yorkers firmly believe in a myth: that the city is so different that the laws of economics don't work here. This ideology is nowhere more destructive than in housing. But the current market...
Tags: New Yorkers
Research articles 2005-07-18
How the Market System Works: Economics 101 for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
In context with how the market system developed, article explains on that how the market system of today works. It looks at four important concepts that of the factors of production, supply and entrepreneurial ability. Article helps in reviewing the basics of economics and creates an important framework for understanding...
Tags: Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneur, Zeromillion.com, Entrepreneurship, Management
White papers 2003-08-18
NASA, NAB slam FCC study. (Capital Watch).(Network Affiliated Stations Alliance, National Association of Broadcasters)
An FCC study ignored Economics 101 when it concluded that network O&Os air more local news than affiliates do, the Network Affiliated Stations Alliance and the NAB said last week. The study failed to consider that O&Os are more prevalent in An FCC study...
Tags: FCC, NASA, network
Research articles 2002-12-16
Twentieth century publication performance in five leading economics journals, a comment
Introduction This paper explores publication performance since 1901 of 101 Ph.D.-awarding economics departments in the five journals which ranked highest in prestige (Hawkins et al., 1973). These include the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. While only a...
Tags: Buffalo, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Hopkins, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn, Stanford, Virginia, Wisconsin, Yale University
Research articles 1995-09-22
Mashable's Social Media Guide for Small Businesses
Over the past year, Mashable has written extensively on the value of social media to small businesses. We have also contributed regularly on this topic to the American Express Open Forum . From the fundamentals of Twitter branding, to the importance of blogging, to getting work...
Tags: Social Media
News items 2009-12-04
Crude Reality: Big Oil's Purposely Restricting Supply
Tony Trupp submits: This crap about offshore drilling is a political wedge. Both the oil companies and OPEC purposely keep oil supplies low to drive up prices. Economics 101. They want to constrict the supply tight enough that the price keeps rising. Their only interest is that of their...
Tags: United States Oil Fund LP, Energy
External links 2008-08-01
New Chevron CEO tries to prove fossil fuel companies aren't fossils
SAN FRANCISCO -- David O'Reilly's education as Chevron's new CEO included a crash course in New Economics 101. Lesson One: No matter how impressive their profits are, companies born in the 19th century have a tough time getting the stock market's attention in the 21st century.
Tags: Chevron Corp., fossil fuel
Research articles 2000-06-01
Too Soon to Move From Equities to Gold
Adam Katz submits: As speculators, we are often very quick to impose our theories on the market - we think we know better. Yet sometimes it is important to take a breath, look at the market, and see what it is telling us. Remember that the market prices in our...
Tags: Gold & Precious Metals
External links 2008-10-07
Innovation 101 merges engineering, business.(Brief Article)
Purdue University and the National Science Foundation are putting engineering and management students together to produce graduates who have the skills to transform academic research into marketable products. A new program called the Innovation Realization Laboratory: Integrating Science and Engineering with Economics and Management aims to...
Tags: engineering, National Science Foundation, team
Research articles 2000-11-01
Shrinking assets
With university endowment funds continuing to erode, many colleges and universities will be forced to make deep spending cuts, probably beginning in 2004. The stock market goes up, and the stock market goes down. It's pretty basic economic theory, something even a philosophy major in Economics 101 can understand. But...
Tags: asset, endowment, FINANCE, Investment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stock
Research articles 2003-01-01
Economics 101.(American interest rates)(Brief Article)
The Fed has been too slow and cautious in raising American interest rates "IF I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said," Alan Greenspan, chairman of America's Federal Reserve, once told a congressman. Wall Street, however, finds the ...
Tags: America, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE
Research articles 1999-08-28
Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
United mechanic finds writer ill-informed I am writing this response to the very misinformed Steve Angvick (Dec. 14 letter). While the subscribers may have been stimulated by his Economics 101 opinion published over the weekend, he could not be more wrong about the United...
Tags: CAREER, FINANCE, Investment, stock, UAL Corp., United Airlines
Research articles 2002-12-18
Chicago Tribune Jim Mateja Column.
By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 28--NEW YORK--Saab used the New York Auto Show to announce a pair of all-wheel-drive hatchback sedans will be added for 2005 based on the Subaru Impreza RS and high-performance Impreza WRX. ...
Tags: Leadership, Manufacturing, Saab, Tribune Co.
Research articles 2003-04-28
Alliance President Proposes Ideas To Save Energy.(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON, DC -- In response to the grip OPEC has held over the nations oil supply, affecting many hvac contractors and their customers, David Nemtzow, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, announced proposals designed to curb the energy crisis. "The cause for the...
Tags: alliance, Construction, OPEC, Strategy, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2000-10-02
Americans flunk Clinton 101; if business conditions and job growth are as robust as the White House says they are, why do nearly half of all Americans disapprove of President Clinton's handling of the economy?
With economic growth rising by a moderate 3.5 percent in the first quarter, unemployment falling to 6 percent and inflation remaining below 2.5 percent, the polls should show that a majority of Americans give the president good marks on the economy. Among all the problems he faces -- from Whitewater...
Tags: FINANCE, job, president, Taxes, White House
Research articles 1994-08-01
United States Department Of Commerce Economics And Statistics Administration Bureau Of Economic Analysis Washington, D.C. 20230; Composite Indexes Of Leading, Coincident, And Lagging Indicators: September 1995
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 1, 1995--The composite index of leading indicators decreased 0.1 percent in September to 101.1 (1987 equals 100), according to preliminary estimates prepared by The Conference Board, under the direction of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. (The indexes have been revised from 1990 forward. See...
Tags: BUREAU, MARKETING, U.S. Department of Commerce
Research articles 1995-11-01
Oil and gas prices: what else is important?
After studying the volumes of material published in November and early December on the oil/gas industry's problems stemming from the $10+ per bbl drop in crude oil price, I think a quote from one of the presenters at Arthur Andersen's 19th Annual Energy Symposium held in Houston, December 8 and...
Tags: Asia, bicycle, OPEC, Simmons & Co., Strategy, Transportation, U.S.
Research articles 1999-01-01
Two Inferior Goods That Make for Superior Stocks in Rough Times
Ockham Research submits: Students of Economics 101 will remember the lesson of inferior goods, which are goods whose demand is inversely related to the consumer’s income or purchasing power. The classic example of this phenomenon is Spam, the canned meat product made by Hormel HRL. You will not find...
Tags: Retail, Ockham Research, Campbell Soup Co., Hormel Foods Corp.
External links 2008-11-26
So Much for Gasoline Demand Destruction
Paul Kedrosky submits: According to this week’s latest MasterCard SpendingPulse data, U.S. retail gasoline demand is back to levels seen earlier this year. Lower prices have apparently driven up demand, as Economics 101 says it will, demand destruction and depression be damned. So, why haven’t oil prices...
Tags: Energy, Paul Kedrosky
External links 2008-12-09
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