…jobs, energy production and energy security.’” A.P.: “‘It’s not a business transaction at all,’ said C. Richard D’Amato, chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a congressional advisory…

This morning the US Secretary of Energy, Sam Bodman, offered his analysis of today’s high oil prices. Short version: don’t expect anything to change soon. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Energy…

…slowed somewhat, partly in response to the earlier increases in energy prices. Labor market conditions, however, apparently continue to improve gradually. Though longer-term inflation expectations remain well contained, Pressures on…

Part one of the BLS’s monthly inflation check was released today: the Producer Price Index for March. It shows a sharp but entirely expected jump, thanks to higher energy costs….

…Macroblog has a graph showing US energy usage / real GDP for the last 50 years. Altig’s graph shows the US economy has become steadily more efficient in terms of…

…were giving more sober readings of the current oil market. My contribution to this discussion draws from the Energy Information Agency and its Annual Energy Outlook 2005 with Projections to…

…inflation (for all items other than energy), while the blue line shows the real price of oil after adjusting for producer price inflation (also for all items other than energy)….

…costs, which will have competing effects on the core rate: to some degree higher energy costs spill over into other prices, which may boost the core rate; but higher energy…

…senior administration official as saying that Rice and her staff had been told in 2001 that Energy Department experts believed the tubes were probably intended for small artillery rockets and…

…forward some types of investment to profit from the accelerated depreciation benefits. This should cause new orders to expand – which is exactly what we’re seeing in the manufacturing surveys…