What is Causing the Steep Increase in Oil Prices?

The world has been experiencing record high oil prices for a while now. Is this a temporary phenomenon, or an issue we have to adopt to in the long term? After all, the oil price was a quarter of the current price just a few years ago. Sadly, the geopolitical and technical factors pushing the price higher and higher every month seem unlikely to disappear in the short term.

Enter the Serpent - Notes on the Ascendency of China

At a time that now seems quick to arrive, China will control much of the world’s manufacturing capacity, and will constitute the largest economy on earth while possessing an enormously massive, modern military unprecedented in history for scale. But what kind of country is China?

Czech Market

Czech Republic is a quite young country from the point of independency, situated in the Eastern Europe, and a very young member of European Union (entered 1 May, 2004). Its GDP equals to $172,200,000,000 USD approximately (this is quite large indicator for such country), GDP per capita equals to 16,800 USD approximately, inflation rate equals to 4,7 percent, unemployment rate equals to 8,5 percent; Czech external debt equals to 24,600,000,000. Czech economy has overcame a crisis recent years but now it is a stable country splendid. Now Czech Republic can be characterized as a quite stable country concerning policy, legislation and economics.

Iran's Nuclear Blackmail

Think you are paying too much for gas now? Wait until Iran gets its nukes!

The Inflation Disaster; Can It Be Averted?

You see, there is a difference between artificial inflation of a mandatory commodity in an economy and actual real inflation and the two need to be separated and studied as separate animals. I hope you under stand this Ben.

President Fox Projects Minimum of 500,000 Immigrants per Year for Decade to US

Our good neighbor to the South has joyfully proclaimed that no matter what the United States Senate and United States Congress come up for in the way of a new immigration reform bill that we should suspect to see half a million immigrants whether legal or illegal for the next 10-years and maybe much higher with peaks in some years.

Airline Economics: Consumer Buying Behavior and Ticket Price Increases

As fuel costs mount many airlines are forced to raise ticket prices. Currently airlines are indeed enjoying a robust economy and filled seats with business and consumer travelers, but they are also forced to raise ticket prices and there is a fine line that will cull the current 80%

Deep in the ART of Texas: Economic Impact Study Shows Significant Impact of the Arts in Texas

In this article, the author, Mike Tummillo of the Stephenville chamber of Commerce, discusses the Economic impact of the Arts in Texas as well as the arts in Stephenville, Texas, specifically.

Alberta Oilsands Enough to Impact World Oil Market Prices? Part 1 of 3

This article will look at the potential impact Alberta oilsands production could have on the world oil market supply, how the OPEC cartel may respond to this supply, and how this may benefit America in terms of reliance on Middle East oil. The primary market used for examples is the relationship between the United States, Alberta, and OPEC. Crude oil is the only resource under consideration within this article despite other resources available within the oilsands resource.

Will China's New Five-Year Plan Force U.S. Utilities to Ration Your Electricity?

Taking your electrical needs for granted? A new five-year plan announced by the Chinese government may put the reliability of your electrical supply at risk. China may snap up all the available uranium over the next few years. U.S. utilities depend upon uranium to power their nuclear reactors, which provide 20% of your electricity.

Financial Results of Mexican Illegal Alien Boycott Are In

The big boycott of the illegal aliens and all the legal Mexicans in the country who either support them in spirit or have family members that are not yet legal and are harboring these criminals now has results.

Anti Globalists Condemn the Federal Reserve

It is amazing indeed that that anti-globalists are so busy condemning the Federal Reserve and the powers that be. Claiming everything is one giant conspiracy theory and that nothing is as it seems. In fact they go so far as to name bloodlines, actual family names and then say everything that is wrong in the world is there fault.

Accelerating Alternative Energy

The President of the United States of America has stated that our nation is addicted to Foreign Oil and that we need to break the habit if we are to continue to use the amounts of energy that we do. Few can deny this truth and the answer is technology in alternative energies and alternative fuels.