Articles by Shawkat Hammoudeh

Gasoline prices in the United States have been on a roller-coaster ride since June 2014. For a while, it seemed that they were at a…

Helicopter money has become popular among economists and policy makers as a result of the ineffectiveness of conventional monetary policy in an environment of near…

Oil prices for Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropped to about $26.65 a barrel in February due to a surplus caused by the accelerated…

Let’s start with a very pessimistic metaphor and then apply it to the oil market. Most patients who suffer from cancer discover the disease in…

The Japanese central bank — Bank of Japan — surprised the world by deciding to have negative interest rates on commercial banks’ excess reserves. What…

Oil prices have dropped by 70 percent since June 2014. The Saudi Arabia’s foreign reserves have fallen from a peak of $746 billion in August…

Companies in the U.S. and the world are striking deals to merge resources to become more focused and profitable at a time of low interest…

Overall inflation (the combined finished goods and service inflation) in the United States’ economy has been below the 2 percent target since 2008. Attempts to…

In a vote of 261-159, the United States House of Representative passed a resolution to support lifting the 41-year old ban on U.S. oil exports.…

When I was a student, most of the economics courses focused on the real economy and money and banking. Finance courses were not as developed…