From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 07:46:02 EDT
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Henry C K Liu, "The Real Problems With $50 Oil" | http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1410216 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The Real Problems With $50 Oil" Henry C K Liu, <www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GE26Dj02.html ">Asian Times After oil prices peaked above US$58 a barrel in early April, and stayed around their current $50 range, the White House announced that it wanted oil to go back down to $25 a barrel. There is a common misconception in life that if only things could go back to the ways they were in the good old days, life would be good again like in the good old days. Unfortunately, good old days never return as good old days because what makes the old days good is often just bad memory. The problem with market capitalism is that while markets can go up and markets can go down, they never end up in the same spot. The term "business cycle" is a misnomer because the end of the cycle is a very different place from the beginning of a cycle. A more accurate term would be "business spiral", either up or down or simply sideways. Oil is a good example whereby this market truism can be observed. When oil rises above $50 a barrel and stays there for an extended period, the resultant changes in the economy become normalized facts. These changes go way beyond fluctuations in the price of oil to produce a very different economy. Below are 10 new economic facts created by $50 oil. This story continues at: < http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1410216 >
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