Word: disruptionism
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We need more - not fewer - oil traders. After a roller-coaster ride that has sent oil prices from a record high of $147 per bbl. last July to below $35 in December and back to around $60, there has been a clamor to clamp down on speculators - those investors who...
The last serious disruption in global supplies came 30 years ago, during Iran's revolution, when oil-field workers joined a national strike, effectively taking Iran's 6 million bbl. a day off global oil markets. Back then, Iran's exports accounted for 10% of the world's oil supplies...
Despite the renewed threat of disruption, major oil-consuming countries are in a strong position to withstand any new market shocks. Global stockpiles are at their largest in about five years because of the downturn in demand brought on by the recession. Many countries also created large strategic oil reserves...
Credit Where It's Due I have been a subscriber for almost 40 years and rarely have I been as disappointed with the magazine as I was with your paltry single page devoted to the Indian elections [June 1]. And it was a page that belittled India's achievement in...
The new findings highlight what researchers are increasingly recognizing as a two-way relationship between psychiatric disorders and disrupted sleep. "Modern medicine and psychiatry have consistently thought that psychological disorders seem to have co-occuring sleep problems and that it's the disorder perpetuating the sleep problems," says Walker. "Is...