Then the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022 led to a new round of "de-industrialization" in Europe. High energy prices and high inflation have significantly increased the costs of enterprises, and many of them were forced to...
Oil prices always trade in fairly narrow ($20 to $40 price ) bands for decades at a time. Any significant price spikes outside of those bands are short lived. Oil is not going to $150 or $175 or $200 or ridiculously $300 anytime soon,...
Nuclear plants produce much lower carbon emissions than fossil fuel plants (coal, oil, and natural gas). It's much more efficient to release energy by smashing atoms apart than by "burning them" (releasing energy through the chemical reaction we call combustion). That's why nuclear plants nee...
I don't apologize. This is a very serious story and a very serious problem. Americans have shown that their system of free enterprise has in the past 50 years plus—and could in the future—produce vastly more prosperity for every single person in this country. Productivity would be far gr...
“I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained,” his statement adds. “This would all undermine U.S. national...
According to the agency theory, ESG activities will produce agency problems between managers and shareholders. ESG expenditures are not in the shareholders’ best interests because ESG activities waste corporate resources, and the direct cash outflows will reduce profits and firm value. A strand of ...
(RU), supplying 45% of natural gas via pipelines through the Baltic Sea (Nord Stream I), and via transit countries, i.e. Belarus, Poland (PL), Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic (CZ) and Austria (AT). A comparison of historical 2012 gas imports and model results can be found in...
These timelines drew attention in March 2022 with crude oil prices at a 10-year high and Russian crude slow to sell as a result of reputational concerns by buyers following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.34 Key Takeaways Oil and gas production is a complex, lengthy, and costly process that ...
Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, other armed conflicts, and the consequences of global warming have made it even more critical to address this issue. As the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 report indicates, there has been an increase in the ...