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NOVEMBER RETAIL SALES DATA

…25,127 25,016 REMAINDER 277,287 276,039 276,604 About half of the nonstore retailers is fuel oil deliveries. So if you take out the price driven large increases in food,gas, and nonstore…

Today is for Brazil

…“phase down” of the tariff, and for the creation of a government and oil industry coalition to study the best ways to incorporate ethanol into U.S. fuels, as well as…

Slavery in my backyard 2

fuel the congressional response — 50,000 victims a year — was an unscientific estimate by a CIA analyst who relied mainly on clippings from foreign newspapers… … Yet the government…

Chickens and the eggs…a parable or paradox?

…down American consumers and taxpayers. Congress, in the pending farm bill and in legislation to extend the ethanol gasoline fuel tax credit, has an excellent chance to shut down the…

Feeling Bearish

…new Federal Reserve chairman’s inflation-fighting resolve is being tested. Alan Greenspan certainly picked a good time to retire. Wessel neglected to mention the fuel that the US’s enormous current account…

The Optimal Gasoline Tax

…I have for now are a couple of things. One is this interesting discussion of fuel taxes in the UK, U.S., Canada, and China. The other comes from one my…