…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

by rdan In an attempt to keep history accurate about sensible policies, this post points out the obvious source of the ban on drilling for oil off coast. So much…

…representing them in Turkey tend to be secular and leftist. The three provinces with a Kurdish majority in northeastern Iraq began achieving a de facto autonomy during the first Gulf…

Meanwhile, Saudis Stuck On Oil Thanks To MbS Crackdown Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) has a plan to get Saudi Arabia off oil, with an immediate push to…

…Revolutionary Guard has threatened to not allow “a single liter of oil” to leave the Persian Gulf. Somehow, I don’t see this ending anytime soon. It’s all about the oil…

…countries and companies that need oil are bringing their empty tankers to Gulf Coat ports and loading up. US oil exports have thus hit a new record: Further, because the…

…oil was positive. Around 1980 one of the CFA exam economic questions was how did higher oil prices impact the dollar. The correct answer was that since oil was denominated…

rdan Finfacts From 1995 to 2008, the annual US trade deficit with China grew from $34 to $266 billion, accounting for virtually all of the increase in the US non-oil…

…in Caspian Sea oil exports. Seems the larger producers of oil on the sea are Azerbaijan (bordering Georgia) and Kazakhstan on the west coast. Viewing a map the Caspian Sea…

John Tamny starts his latest op-ed with some wisdom from Herbert Stein: Seeking to shift blame away from the Federal Reserve and the Nixon White House for the oil shocks…