Topic: Daniel Yergin
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Instead of the traditional 'flight to the dollar' in a time of instability, there has been a 'flight to commodities' in search of stability during a time of currency instability and a falling dollar. We believe that this trend -- a falling dollar contributing to higher oil prices -- is very strong
Outside View: Offshore drilling deception Aug 12, 2008
Ten years from now, world capacity to produce oil could be 20 percent higher than today
World's oil market expected to shift Dec 09, 2007
Every administration since the early 1970s has struggled with the issue of rising oil imports and the right mix of policies to deal with them
Hurdles seen in meeting Bush's energy aims Feb 02, 2006
Libya is in a position to play a new strategic role in the global oil industry and in the rapidly-growing global gas business
Plans begin for Libya's economic future Jul 06, 2004
Even though this doesn't disrupt supply, it is a significant psychological shock
Saudi attack has psychological effect May 31, 2004
Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and economic researcher. Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an energy research consultancy. It was acquired by IHS Inc. in 2004.
Born in Los Angeles, California to a Chicago Tribune reporter father and a mother who was a sculptor and painter, Yergin attended Beverly Hills High School. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he served on the board of the Yale Daily News, and was a founder of The New Journal. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations (1974) from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He also holds an honorary doctoral degree (1994) from the University of Houston.
Yergin's first major book, Shattered Peace, was a moderately 'revisionist' account of the origins of the Cold War that attributed it chiefly to "tragic misconceptions" on the part of American policymakers who, in the post-World War II years, embraced the "Riga axioms" of George F. Kennan, Loy W. Henderson, Charles E. Bohlen, and Elbridge Durbow rather than the "Yalta axioms" of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shattered Peace was based on Yergin's Ph.D. dissertation.
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