Articles by Shawkat Hammoudeh
Aug. 5, 2016
The gasoline roller-coaster
Gasoline prices in the United States have been on a roller-coaster ride since June 2014. For a while, it seemed that they were at a…
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Jul. 22, 2016
The impacts of helicopter money today
Helicopter money has become popular among economists and policy makers as a result of the ineffectiveness of conventional monetary policy in an environment of near…
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Jun. 3, 2016
The wavering status of the oil risk premium
Oil prices for Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropped to about $26.65 a barrel in February due to a surplus caused by the accelerated…
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Feb. 19, 2016
OPEC has market share cancer yet refuses to address it
Let’s start with a very pessimistic metaphor and then apply it to the oil market. Most patients who suffer from cancer discover the disease in…
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Feb. 5, 2016
Desperate measures to stimulate economy
The Japanese central bank — Bank of Japan — surprised the world by deciding to have negative interest rates on commercial banks’ excess reserves. What…
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Jan. 22, 2016
Devaluation and the ripple effect
Oil prices have dropped by 70 percent since June 2014. The Saudi Arabia’s foreign reserves have fallen from a peak of $746 billion in August…
Jan. 8, 2016
Now trending in America: mergers and acquisitions
Companies in the U.S. and the world are striking deals to merge resources to become more focused and profitable at a time of low interest…
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Dec. 4, 2015
The balancing act of inflation and deflation
Overall inflation (the combined finished goods and service inflation) in the United States’ economy has been below the 2 percent target since 2008. Attempts to…
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Oct. 16, 2015
US lifts oil exports ban, now what?
In a vote of 261-159, the United States House of Representative passed a resolution to support lifting the 41-year old ban on U.S. oil exports.…
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Sep. 25, 2015
Mind the gap: Bridging real and finance economics
When I was a student, most of the economics courses focused on the real economy and money and banking. Finance courses were not as developed…