Sentences with phrase «oil wealth on»

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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.

The pro-independence Scottish government says Scotland would be entitled to 90 per cent of Britain's oil wealth — based on divvying up the two countries» waters — but only liable for about 8 per cent of its 1.3 trillion pound ($ 2.1 trillion) national debt, based on its share of the U.K. population.

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.

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.

The ongoing oil price collapse is having a severely negative impact on the wealth of those who own oil reserves.

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.

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.

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.

The new wealth of the oil - rich countries, on the other hand, flowed into European and American banks, which were eager to lend.

Then there are the consequences of national wealth being dependent on oil.

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

Some supported the proposal on equity and fairness grounds, since elites were already perceived to benefit disproportionately from the state's resources, through special - interest appropriations of oil wealth, and because it would bring a huge benefit to low - income Alaskans and those living at a subsistence level.

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.

Minister of Petroleum Emmanuel Armah - Kofi Buah has given the assurance that bold steps have been taken to drive the oil, gas and power industry forward and emphasised Ghana was on its way to prosperity with its oil wealth.

«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.»

According to the report on Wednesday, Dangote lost $ 4.9 bn or one - third of his wealth as the combined effect of falling oil prices and the June devaluation of the naira pushed him to No. 112 on the billionaires» list with $ 10.4 bn.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

Our sole export was oil and we had built big government and imported consumption based on our perceived «oil wealth».

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune on oil, and other philanthropies and high - wealth individuals on Monday will announce pledges to divest a total of $ 50 billion from fossil fuel investments.

Talks likely to continue, but slowly Japan, meanwhile, focused on ways to curb more emissions by midcentury instead of by 2020; Saudi Arabia, like India, insisted that the burden of doing more to cut emissions falls squarely on the shoulders of industrialized countries — which, within the world of U.N. climate talks, does not include Saudi Arabia, despite its wealth and vast oil resources; and Qatar, which is hosting the next major climate conference but which has historically played a quiet role in the talks, did not offer a submission.

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Because the constraints on corruption were so toothless, vast state wealth — especially oil, gas and mineral wealth — was transferred in the mid-1990s into private hands, creating the so - called oligarchs of the new Russia.

Obiang, who has ruled the African country since 1979, stands accused of diverting millions from the country's oil wealth into his own coffers, and his government has a dismal track record on human rights.

Faced with water scarcity and reliance on food imports — and flush with oil wealth that the nation knows can't last forever — Qatar sees science and a «knowledge - based economy» as the ways forward.

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Just search on «National Parks» in the Edutopia search bar to see the wealth of Edutopia's coverage, including how students at the Crissy Field Center, part of the Golden Gate National Parks, studied the effects of an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay here in my home town.

As I've detailed before, I believe EIIB offers investors a compelling triple play on frontier markets, Islamic finance, and Middle Eastern oil wealth & resources.

Next on the list come low - glycemic carbs like chickpeas and peas, followed by a source or two of fat (usually sunflower oil and flaxseed), and then a wealth of added vitamins and minerals.

Kehinde Wiley, Passing / Posing 15, 2002, Oil on canvas, RBC Wealth Management Collection, courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Hung Liu, Baby King II, 1996, Oil on canvas and painted wood, RBC Wealth Management Collection, courtesy Steinbaum Krauss Gallery

Building on the new commitments on greenhouse gas emissions pledged by China and the United States, Razak laid out a strategy for his country (facilitated by wealth derived from abundant oil and gas reserves) to become a leader in developing renewable energy and pursuing energy - efficient design.

and the wealth management firm Arjuna Capital resulted in ExxonMobil becoming the first oil and gas company to report on stranded assets.

In March, engagement by As You Sow and the wealth management firm Arjuna Capital resulted in ExxonMobil becoming the first oil and gas company to report on stranded assets.

Much of Montana's past wealth and prosperity was built on exploitation of its abundant natural resources, from copper and timber in the west to coal and grazing lands in the east to oil and gas on the Rocky Mountain Front.

An economy such as Norway, heavily dependent on oil revenues to underpin its sovereign wealth fund, is to be congratulated for taking a timely and foresighted approach to managing its transition risk exposure.

And the apologists for the policies have been changing tack to «but it's a good thing anyway» to «redistribute» wealth (socialists) or stop «dependence on foreign oil» (warmongers) or «overpopulation» (Malthusians).

DeSmog UK's new three - part investigative series Empire Oil: London's Dirty Secret, lifts the veil on a «boys» club» that generates wealth for The City from environmentally damaging activities in politically unstable regions.

While OPEC countries have done their best to keep oil prices high by cutting back on production, America's energy wealth and free markets have frustrated these efforts.

Later this century we will probably start to develop sources of abundant energy that may, incidentally, be «carbon neutral» (nuclear fusion, zero - point energy, etc.) Right now, however, most of our wealth comes from commerce and industry that largely depend on energy sources such as oil, coal and gas.

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With the new cabinet so blatantly in favor of corporate wealth and expanded oil and gas development, climate change is one reality that is certain to be on the list of inconvenient facts to be denied, deleted from federal websites, and discouraged from being disseminated.

In fact, it is likely that despite any added wealth brought in by expanding palm oil plantations on peat soils, the negative effects of climate change will wipe it all away.

Any move by the Norwegian wealth fund to offload its fossil fuel assets would send shockwaves around global markets, given that the fund, itself built on the country's offshore oil and gas revenues, holds an estimated 1.3 per cent of global market capitalisation.

Over the past decade, however, we've seen gradual movement towards practice and industry segments within law firms: the banking group, the oil and gas group, the wealth management group, and so on (there are even client groups within some law firms, better again).

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...