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Nofar Lapidot

August exports grow 2.7% while imports drop 4.7% -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- ... - 1 views

www.shanghaidaily.com/...%2Bwhile%2Bimports%2Bdrop%2B47

economic growth Balance of Payments exports imports shanghai daily china

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  • Nofar Lapidot on 10 Sep 12
     
    exports and imports in China affect the GDP
Erica Nozawa

Second IA - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...and-scotland-business-19420315

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  • Erica Nozawa on 06 Sep 12
     
    Can I use this article Mr. Seldis?
Erica Nozawa

Scotland sets minimum prices for alcohol to curtail country's health problems - HealthP... - 1 views

www.cbsnews.com/...rtail-countrys-health-problems

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  • Erica Nozawa on 18 Jun 12
     
    (Credit: Getty Images) (CBS News) Alcohol in Scotland is about to get more expensive. The Scottish Government announced today that it will set a minimum price of 50 pence per unit (10 milliliters) of alcohol - or about $0.81 for every 0.34 fluid ounces of booze.
Sophia Withers

A123, U.S.-Backed Battery Maker, Claims Breakthrough - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...maker-claims-breakthrough.html

shared by Sophia Withers on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • lithium-ion batteries for electric cars
  • give more ammunition
  • president’s heavy spending on new energy technologies.
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  • A123 had to cut workers
  • promise
  • running short of money
  • raises more cash from private investors, it might not be able to stay in business.
  • permit the creation of a simpler, lighter, longer-lasting battery pack that does not require a system to cool or heat it.
  • new technology may well determine the fate of A123
  • promote electric cars and build a domestic industry
Aili Saito

Windfarm subsidy faces huge cut - Green Living - Environment - The Independent - 1 views

www.independent.co.uk/...dy-faces-huge-cut-7813595.html

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  • swingeing cuts in state support for onshore wind-farms
    • Aili Saito
      Aili Saito on 18 Jun 12
       
      Subsidy Supply like (Ssub) will alter -> shift to the left
  • 25 per cent cut in a subsidy regime that is worth some £400m a year to the industry
  • a reckless act of political opportunism
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  • onshore wind power was expensive compared with gas and that it would drive up fuel poverty
  • Climate Change's attempts to stimulate renewable energy are being hamp-ered by Treasury intervention
  • is to have more onshore renewable energy, which requires lower levels of subsidy, and less offshore, which requires more.
  • It is crackers to kill dead the deployment of the cheapest renewable technology if you genuinely are worried about the cost
  • demanding cuts to the multimillion-pound public subsidies for wind-farms
Derek Schwung

US airlines boost domestic long-haul fares | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...es-fares-idUSLNE80C01M20120113

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    • Derek Schwung
      Derek Schwung on 17 Jun 12
       
      Increase in prices in overseas flights 
  • United Continental Holdings (UAL.N), AMR Corp's American Airlines (AAMRQ.PK), Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) and US Airways (LCC.N) all said they have matched it
    • Derek Schwung
      Derek Schwung on 17 Jun 12
       
      Many firms in the market are 
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  • higher oil prices raise costs and threaten profitability
    • Derek Schwung
      Derek Schwung on 17 Jun 12
       
      Increase in FoP
    • Derek Schwung
      Derek Schwung on 17 Jun 12
       
      Inward shift in supply 
  • Oil prices initially rose on Thursday as the euro rallied and a Nigerian union threatened to shut down output, but they later eased on a report that the European Union could delay a ban on Iranian exports by six months. U.S. February crude oil was down 1.6 percent at $99.26 a barrel after earlier reaching above $102.
  • European law requiring airlines to pay for aircraft emissions.
    • Derek Schwung
      Derek Schwung on 17 Jun 12
       
      Negative Production Externality - tax Market failure 
  • d a $3 surcharge each way unveiled by Delta on fares purchased in the United States for flights between the United States and Europe
    • Derek Schwung
      Derek Schwung on 17 Jun 12
       
      Increase in price, tax put on consumer 
Nayana Devadas

Oil Gains a Third Day on Demand Outlook as Supplies Drop - Bloomberg - 2 views

www.bloomberg.com/...-crude-stockpiles-decline.html

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    • Nayana Devadas
      Nayana Devadas on 07 Jun 12
       
      demand- micro
  • Crude inventories
    • Nayana Devadas
      Nayana Devadas on 07 Jun 12
       
      inventory- supply- storage 
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  • crude
  • Futures
  • 75 cents to $85.04
  • Brent oil for July settlement gained 26 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $99.10 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.
  • New York crude is set to rebound based on a technical indicator that shows a decline of more than 20 percent fro
  • bear market conditions
  • Futures
  • Futures
  • “The inventory decline doesn’t change the overall outlook much, but at least it’s headed in the right direction,”
  • The relative strength index, or RSI, has been below 30 since May 11, signaling that oil is poised to climb, said Richard Ross, a technical analyst at brokerage Auerbach Grayson & Co. in New York. The 14-day RSI, which identifies possible turning points in markets, dropped to 16.3 on June 1, the lowest level since February 1986.
Yihan Li

$6 billion-a-year ethanol subsidy dies -- but wait there's more - U.S. News - 2 views

usnews.msnbc.msn.com/...sidy-dies-but-wait-theres-more

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  • America's corn farmers have been benefiting from annual federal subsidies of around $6 billion in recent years, all in the name of ethanol used as an additive for the nation's vehicles.
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 07 Jun 12
       
      A supply and demand diagram showing how the loss of subsidy should affect price
  • thanks in part to high oil prices that make ethanol competitive.
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 13 Jun 12
       
       Ethanol is a substitute good of oil. High price of oil thus make ethanol relatively cheap (Calculate XED if with sufficient data)
  • tax credit
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 07 Jun 12
       
      tax credit is "sum deducted from the total amount a taxpayer owes to"  
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  • tax credit is up to $1.01 per gallon.
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 07 Jun 12
       
      Tax credit, a form of subsidy, keeps the price low and companies profitable. 
  • corn ethanol, which now takes a larger share of the U.S. corn crop than cattle, hogs and poultry, as a factor in driving food prices higher.
  • What the industry doesn’t want to see, however, is an end to a separate tax credit for ethanol made not from corn but non-foodstuffs like switchgrass, wood chips and even the leaves and stalks of corn.
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 13 Jun 12
       
      Possible evaluations 1) why government wants to keep one type of subsidy while getting rid of the another type? 2) pros and cons of keeping this subsidy 
  • That ends on Jan. 1
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 13 Jun 12
       
      Possible evaluations 1)pros and cons of having subsidies for ethanol 2)was the subsidy effective 3) why did the government implement this in the first place 4) what could the government have used other than tax credit
Sean Dolan

Renault backs electric cars with free chargers | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...chargers-idUSL5E8G94V820120612

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  • electric car
    • Sean Dolan
      Sean Dolan on 12 Jun 12
       
      positive consumption externalities
  • o claim 10
    • Sean Dolan
      Sean Dolan on 12 Jun 12
       
      demand increase
  • subsidy
    • Sean Dolan
      Sean Dolan on 12 Jun 12
       
      subsidized
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  • with volumes dropping sharply after filling advance
    • Sean Dolan
      Sean Dolan on 12 Jun 12
       
      decrease in demand
  • about plug-in hybrids that
    • Sean Dolan
      Sean Dolan on 12 Jun 12
       
      substitute goods
Yihan Li

Republican Lawmaker Considering a Tobacco Tax Increase Bill | StateImpact Idaho - 0 views

stateimpact.npr.org/...ng-a-tobacco-tax-increase-bill

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  • Tobacco Tax Increase
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 11 Jun 12
       
      Taxation on demerit good 
  • would tack on an additional $1.25 to Idaho’s tobacco tax
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 11 Jun 12
       
      Massive increase on the tax of tobacco 
  • Supporters estimate the $1.25 per pack increase could raise $50 million for the state as well as encourage people to quit or not pick up the habit
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  • Medicaid program at least $83 million each year and cost taxpayers as much as $319 million in other health-related costs annually.
    • Yihan Li
      Yihan Li on 11 Jun 12
       
      negative consumption externalities  (benefit-cost curve) 
  • Yihan Li on 11 Jun 12
     
    Tobacco Tax
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