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A Deeper Dive into Oil Pricing

…Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was signed into law on Dec 21 of that year. These new laws allowed mega-consolidation in the finance industry and prohibited the regulation of…

CGI 2011: Haiti Development Workshop

[updates and edits, especially in the 4th-6th grafs] “The winner” in Haitian development created 12,000 jobs in the garment industry in the past eight years in Haiti. Seems as if…

Capacity Utilization

industry is actually falling. It is now at 65.4% as compared to its recent peak of 70.7% in April, 2010. Moreover, the growth in semiconductor capacity is slowing significantly. I…