Sentences with phrase «in oil wealth»

Instead, the slowdown of Middle Eastern capital into the U.S. may be a function of regional investors having less capital to invest with because of the drop in oil wealth, coupled with fewer opportunities to find good rates of return, Costello notes.

Why such largesse for an emirate swimming in oil wealth?

Not exact matches

In Vancouver, according to condo marketer Bob Rennie, between 60 % and 80 % of all real estate sales in the city's West Side are now to mainland Chinese, while markets like Calgary and Saskatoon have soared thanks to all the new oil and potash wealtIn Vancouver, according to condo marketer Bob Rennie, between 60 % and 80 % of all real estate sales in the city's West Side are now to mainland Chinese, while markets like Calgary and Saskatoon have soared thanks to all the new oil and potash wealtin the city's West Side are now to mainland Chinese, while markets like Calgary and Saskatoon have soared thanks to all the new oil and potash wealth.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

But the wealth generated by oil far outstrips the wealth of alternatives, and until that profit flow reverses then the status quo in the U.S. will pursue Oil and Empire until the U.S. economy and dollar implooil far outstrips the wealth of alternatives, and until that profit flow reverses then the status quo in the U.S. will pursue Oil and Empire until the U.S. economy and dollar imploOil and Empire until the U.S. economy and dollar implode.

Saudi Arabia used to be a quiet giant in the Middle East, more than happy to be the world's largest source of oil, minting petrodollars and spreading the wealth, internally, to keep the powers that be in charge and the populace placated.

Take government - owned sovereign wealth funds for example: Over $ 5 trillion is invested in global capital markets from SWF's coming directly from oil - producing nations.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealOil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealoil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.

(Wealth of Common Sense) • The shale oil revolution is in danger (Fortune) see also 26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking's -LSB-...]

That is due in part to the considerable oil wealth that characterizes countries throughout the region; although lower oil prices in the last two years have significantly impacted fiscal revenues, particularly in the larger more - oil - dependent economies such as Saudi Arabia.

He also has an experience in working in investment at sovereign wealth fund and a major oil company.

JULY 2012: Mitchell Anderson, as part of a larger project in collaboration with Tides Canada reporting on Canada's transition to cleaner energy, travels to Norway and a files widely read stories on how that nation has gained far more wealth from its oil reserves than has Alberta.

A lot of wealth has been created in the past decade and it has been conventional — in real estate and oil and gas,» he says.

In terms of wealth transfers (ignoring price differentials), that's a wash for us and a loss for the U.S. and a gain for the country from which we buy oil on the east coast.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

His travels took him on a whirlwind sojourn, from the massive shale gas deposit in the Marcellus Formation to Alberta's remote oil sands region, helping his readers build life - changing wealth every step of the way.

But Albert Brenner, director of asset allocation strategy at People's United Wealth Management in Connecticut, expects it to hit 2 percent or more this year, depending on oil prices.

In 1993, the Klein government cut spending, refused to hike taxes and did nothing to injure Alberta's primary wealth creation machine, oil and gas.

Meanwhile, sovereign wealth funds in the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are flush with cash from high oil prices and are on the lookout for attractively priced European assets.

Political turmoil in the region threatens to stunt any equity - market rallies, but the oil - producing countries of the Gulf have strong economies and active sovereign wealth and private equity funds.

Their emphasis on self - sufficiency and frugality - so complete that questions should arise how Diogenes ever procured a lantern and why he was wasting oil in a search so futile - is the result of a long tradition of praise of poverty, culminating in their view that wealth is qualitative, the internal condition of virtue, to which only poverty can lead.

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

The word Diwali itself means «festival of lamps», because houses and public spaces are decorated with scores of small oil lamps in honor of the goddess Lakshmi, to whom Hindus pray to for success and wealth.

There is, however, the beginning of a renaissance in Kuwait and Bahrein because of the wealth brought by oil royalties.

For it is in humble things like tar and crude oil in the desert that the great wealth» the black gold» from oil refineries is rendered usable (but not until the late nineteenth century).

You're buying into the lie, because there are and have been people in power who want us to continue to decimate our economy and our nation, pouring all of our wealth into the hands of a few weapons manufacturers and oil corporations.

The god we read about in the Bible tells us to obey the government no matter what, and pay our taxes so our armies can go steal the oil and wealth of other countries, and imprison innocent people.

We may say on our money «in God we trust,» but Muslims suspect that oil, power and wealth are our true hearts» desire.

and would add if the same management structure hadn't lied to fans about how all this would allow us to compete with top teams in Europe with... with exception of PSG... are not driven by oil wealth or megalomanic owners... of course none of this has anything to do with the footballing errors consistently made by wenger and which if corrected would at least give us a BETTER shot at winning top trophies than has been the case over the last dozen or so years

Chelsea and Man City, with all the wealth at their disposal up to FFP were not able to guarantee victory all the time, and Man U, the richest club in England prior to the oil money influx, spent decades trying to find someone who could generate success.

Mansour's personal wealth ran into the tens of billions of pounds due in part to his control of vast oil reserves in the UAE and numerous other investments, including a stake in Virgin Galactic and Sky News Arabia.

Ever since oil wealth took over the funding of PSG in 2012, many coaches have come and gone and in each case were deemed to have come short of the club's ultimate goal.

Many families want the advice and natural birth expertise that Midwives have to offer, and want to take advantage of a wealth of information about herbal, homeopathic and essential oil remedies, but would feel safer birthing in a hospital or birth center setting, or perhaps have a physical condition that does not allow for home birth.

Russia is doing quite well from its oil and natural resources (except for the recent oil price crash) and has no interest in using the wealth to annex and prop up former soviet states in eastern Europe (although they do want their port in Crimea).

Most state - owned companies — such as the oil giant Petrobras in Brazil, state - owned banks in India, and state - owned enterprises in China — are wasteful and corrupt of which I give ample evidence in my book, The Public Wealth of Nations (co-authored with Dag Detter).

In contrast to his previous book (1994:4, 42 — 77), oil wealth is no longer the main consideration for the region's security.

Norway's trillion - dollar wealth fund, the largest of its kind, in November proposed cutting billions of dollars in oil and gas stocks.

Indeed, oil wealth, so narrowly shared between the region's ruling minorities, has historically presented a barrier to democracy and left a vacuum of inequality and lost opportunities in many Arab societies.

What's more, the ease of wealth creation from oil readily attracts those whose sole interests lie in personal profit, religious agenda or geopolitical power.

So far as wealth is concerned, Scotland does have substantial oil resources off its coasts, which will continue to provide much economic activity in parts of the country, as well as a stream of tax revenue.

The Middle East's oil wealth, then, has the potential to become the key driver for change and innovation in Arab countries.

Prosecutors in Geneva say he has plundered his country's oil wealth to buy luxuries, including a private jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia.

Dubbing him «$ ean Eldridge,» the NRCC called out the candidate for carpetbagging into the Hudson Valley district, buying a $ 2 million home there, and investing some of his immense wealth in banks, oil and tobacco companies he criticizes on the trail.

Maitama, a former Minister of Solid Minerals in the sixties, said that as a former minister he is aware that Nigeria is endowed with the wealth of resources outside oil, saying the country has gold, diamond and other resources.

It said that wealth could allow an independent Scotland to save excess oil tax revenues in a sovereign wealth fund.

Governor Aregbesola put it all in devastating statistics, saying that all Nigeria's ballyhooed «petro - dollar» wealth amounted to was a mere N8, 000 a month, if you share the current oil output among its 140 million citizens — N10, 000 less than the national minimum wage!

«A one - off windfall tax on oil profits would be a fair, popular redistribution of wealth and a reminder of why a Labour government protects those in need.»

Ogun state is transforming beyond our belief housing administration infrastructure new airport mega city coming up oil discovered and we are now begging Pdp led FG to help us in exploiting our wealth....