Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard ...

Unfortunately, energy is one of the sectors that have historically been hammered the most whenever the economy ails. The opening of giant oil fields in the United States in the years heading into the ...

Corley’s monumental two-volume work, A History of the Burmah Oil Company. For those unfamiliar, Burmah was our parent company until it divested its shareholding in PPL in 1997. Reading Corley’s ...

An 18th Century oil painting of a Manx marine is "indicative of a much wider tradition of seafaring" on the Isle of Man, a historian has said. The piece, painted by Arthur Davis in about 1780, is a ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

The escalating conflict between Israel and Iran has sent oil prices higher over the past few days. If history is anything to go by, the pressure it’s putting on global energy costs will fade before ...

Is the AI bubble about to burst? Every day that the stock prices of semiconductor champion Nvidia and the so-called “Fab Five” tech giants (Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta) fail to regain ...

JPMorgan says it's unlikely Iran will close Strait of Hormuz Oil prices were flirting with four-month highs early Thursday as traders continued to show concern that the Israel-Iran conflict could ...

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