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Oil producers agree to limit production — not really

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Feb 16, 2016
Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia and Qatar proposal leaves few analysts impressed.
A flame from the Saudi Arabian Oil Company burns in the Saudi Arabian desert. 
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What's up with Saudi Arabia and its oil?

by Scott Tong
Feb 12, 2016
Why does Saudi Arabia keep pumping oil when it's driving prices down?
Oil pumping on the Saudi Arabian border.
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Is OPEC still doing its job?

by Scott Tong
Feb 9, 2016
What happens when neither the oil cartel nor anyone else manages supply?
President of the OPEC Conference Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu at a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria on December 4, 2015.
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Oil? Almonds? They have something in common

by Andy Uhler
Feb 2, 2016
Commodities are commodities, whether you drill a hole or plant a crop to produce.
Almond trees in the central valley of California. 
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With busts, the past is no indicator of the future

by Scott Tong
Jan 29, 2016
There's a limit to comparisons between the fall of oil and previous downturns.
A pumpjack sits on the outskirts of town at dawn in the Permian Basin oil field on January 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. 
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Weekly Wrap

Weekly Wrap: China, China, China

by Kai Ryssdal
Jan 22, 2016
David Gura and Linette Lopez join Kai Ryssdal to recap the week that was.
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The imbalance in the oil market won't go away quickly

by Scott Tong
Jan 19, 2016
Consumers don't consume more oil because it's cheap. Suppliers have to cut supply.
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Five personal finance lessons from the oil boom and bust

by Marketplace Contributor
Jan 19, 2016
One reporter reflects on what she learned from her time in North Dakota.
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Weekly Wrap

Weekly Wrap: Oil prices and the global economy

by Molly Wood
Jan 15, 2016
Sudeep Reddy and Catherine Rampell join Molly Wood to recap the week that was.
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The Resource Curse

For Venezuela, oil is a resource curse

by Scott Tong
Jan 11, 2016
Over-reliance on oil, and subsidies for the masses, leave Venezuela in a desperate economic crisis
Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez and current President Nicolas Maduro accompany United Socialist Party (PSUV) deputies, outside the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas on January 7, 2016. Venezuela's political crisis deepened Thursday as the government vowed to stop the center-right opposition using its new legislative powers to try and oust President Nicolas Maduro. 
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