OPINION/EDITORIAL

Fuel for Thought: Ditch the Subsidies

August 14, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Pensions, education, healthcare, better infrastructure, technology, and climate change: fiscal policymakers have their work cut out for them on many fronts.  Whether you live in a rapidly aging advanced economy,  or a low-income or emerging market economy with a young, booming population, all these issues […]

Oil Soars As The U.S. Delays Trade War Tariffs

August 13, 2019/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week   –    Australia is set to surpass Qatar as the largest exporter of LNG in the world. –    Australia’s LNG export capacity increased from roughly 2.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2011 to more than 11.4 Bcf/d this year.   –   […]

Oil Price Risk Has Shifted To The Downside

August 9, 2019/OilPrice.com The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates July 31 for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis in an effort to keep the US’s long-running economic expansion on course. It was in many ways an unusual move given the strong labour market, but possible in the […]