Welcome to #BizUnited, a new campaign highlighting the ways in which small businesses and large companies work together across America. Check back periodically for new installments, and share your company’s story on social media with the hashtag #BizUnited. Adam Wilson and Ian Bernstein were running a small but successful robotics company called Sphero when they…
Marita Noon
OPEC agrees to a production decrease, prices increase-but could be just right
At the end of September, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the markets by agreeing to a production cut. As soon as the 14-nation deal was announced, oil prices jumped more than 5 percent to some of the highest levels since the crash two years ago. The proposed output cap is historic and…
James H. Rust
Trump v. Clinton Startling Difference in Energy Policies
On May 26, Republican candidate Trump announced “An America First Energy Plan,” calling for energy independence for the United States by capitalizing on our abundant, inexpensive, and geographically distributed fossil fuels of coal, oil, and natural gas. Indeed, the Republican Party Platform contains this statement on energy: “Energy is both an economic and national security…
Luke Geiver
Marathon maintaining Bakken production through new frack strategy
Marathon Oil Corp. is utilizing high-intensity proppant loading and increased stage-counts to maintain its Bakken production levels despite a decrease in activity within the play. Despite brining only four Williston Basin wells on to sales in the second quarter, Marathon still kept production at 53,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, down only 4,000…
Arlene Becker, Voice of Jerusalem
A Dental Holiday in Israel
For years I was fortunate. A wonderful dentist realizing our budget constraints, and as we had no dental insurance, treated myself and my son for almost nothing. Our yearly cleanings were done at a local dental hygiene vocational school. However when the dentist retired, I was rudely awakened to the high cost of dental work. …
Voice of Jerusalem, Yoram Ettinger
Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed, 2016
By Yoram Ettinger Rosh Hashanah is one of four Jewish New Years: (a) Rosh Hashanah, the anniversary of the Creation, the beginning of the Jewish civil calendar (5,777) and the seasons, the setting of the Sabbatical (7th) and the Jubilee (50th) years and the figuring of the annual tithe (10%) on vegetable and grains;…