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Saudi Arabia
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Environment/Energy
OPEC Agrees to a Production Decrease, Prices Increase—But Could Be Just Right
by Marita Noon October 11, 2016At the end of September, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) surprised the markets by agreeing to a production cut.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
How ‘Freedom Frackers’ are Liberating Saudi Arabia
by Isaac Orr January 22, 2016Thus far, the Saudi royal family has maintained its highly oppressive form of government by pacifying its people with an extensive welfare state funded by oil money. But low oil prices brought about by hydraulic fracturing in the United States are forcing the monarchy to give the Saudi people more freedom in order to remain in power.