How Crude Oil Prices Impact the Consumer

While very few of us think to check the current rate of crude oil prices, the fact of the matter is that every chance in the cost of crude oil makes an impact on our lives. Here are a couple of examples of how we are affected by the price of crude oil.

Down Towns in the Suburbs are Changing

Down Town re-vitalization projects use to be for Cities, but now downtown suburbs are getting a face lift too. And with so many people living in the suburbs often down towns are now a traffic mess- indeed cars are clogging town areas.

Indiana Leads The Nation In Foreclosure Of Homes

Indiana leads the nation in foreclosed homes. Find out why!

Social Well-Being, Risk Management, and Reducing Vulnerability

Commodity risk management. Price and weather risk management insurance provide farmers and institutions in developing countries better tools to manage exposure to price and weather fluctuations and potentially expand access to credit. Pilots are underway in India, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, Thailand, Nicaragua and Honduras and are under development in Kenya, Madagascar, Vietnam, and Bangladesh

An Industry Where Jobs Are NOT Exported

Does an industry exist that can benefit the economy, the environment, world peace, and create jobs while keeping them in the country? Believe it or not, the answer is a resounding yes! So what exactly is this industry and why is America not employing more of it?

The Euro Area's Data Difficulties

A lot of economists and people who are interested in EU development can't find the necessary data. Find out why!

Canada is Fully Engaged on the Detroit-Windsor Border Crossing

Canada recognizes that the Detroit-Windsor border crossing is an essential economic link between the U.S. and Canada. More international trade crosses this border in one year than the United States does annually with Japan.

DIBC Setbacks In Detroit And Windsor

Regulatory, legal and municipal actions affecting the Detroit International Bridge Company (DIBC) are summarized chronologically from news reports and official documents.

Can We Afford To Ignore China

As the world scrambles to lock in resources for its people's future and security can we afford to ignore the developing world and its economies?

Ruined Rural Economy India - Crocodile Snuffles Part 8

The article deals with various issues of rural economies and farming sector problems in rejuvinating them with a view to increase purchasing power and creates new markets.

Ruined Rural Economy India - Forgotten Common Man - Part 7

The article in series of Ruined Rural Economy further highlights as to how GOI is forgetting a common man at all. How brutally four farmers were killed on 14 March 2007 at Nandigram in Wesy Bengal is analyzed in the light of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at the cost of human lives.

Ruined Rural Economy India - Metal Or Stomach Part 5

The article debates about the various pros and cons of last three anti-farmer budgets and its effect on common man. The various factors which ruined farming sector are analyzed. It discusses the need of debt economy for students, farmers and other common man. It suggests various measures to prevent further retardation of agro sector.

You Would Think Living in an Oil Rich Country Should Make Energy Costs Cheaper for Their People?

I went to fill up my car a few days ago and saw that the cost per liter of gas at $101.9. For those of you who are not on the metric system, that would equal roughly $3.57 a gallon. In Canada, the province of Alberta is booming, not because they just have wonderful beef, but the oil industry is flourishing beyond belief.

Sub-Prime Lending Disaster Cometh

In the late 1980s and early 1990s we had the junk bonds and the S & L Scandals and now we have a crisis in the sub-prime lending banking sub-sector. During the height of the real-estate bubble too many loans were being made to folks who had marginal or less than marginal credit. Loans were made well above the actual equity value. Now the equity in many folk's homes has dropped by 20 percent or more, where does that leave the lenders?

Is Mankind Outgrowing the Price System?

Some people have noted, even economists that the Price System, that we use in human societies and civilizations is outdated and unworkable. They cite the disparity between rich and poor and all the poverty in the world. To a degree one would have to admit upon thinking about it, that it is not the most perfect system, as it often rewards certain types of behavior which undermines the whole (the rest of the population) for the betterment of a few?