The price of crude oil, which hit a record level of 148 a barrel in July, has since fallen almost 25 , or 36. Whether recent developments in America s economy give reason for hope is now the question.

Primary commodity prices weakened considerably.

Because crude oil is priced in US dollars, and the dollar has depreciated against the euro, European consumers have gotten off relatively easy from rising energy prices.

As a result, the price of anti retrovirals has been cut by more than 50 .

That year, oil prices plunged, interest rates soared, and the government defaulted on its debt.

The rise in raw material prices was exacerbated by increased transport costs.

If oil prices decline in the future, the oil industry will suffer severely.

We found that after they adopted it the complication rates fell 35 percent.

Interest rates had decreased significantly for domestic and foreign currency.

Add to that the cost of food, electricity, transportation, communication have dropped 10 to 1,000 fold.

The problem is that the permits market price has plummeted in the midst of Europe s economic slowdown.

French government bond interest rates fell 30 to record lows, less than 50 basis points above German government bond rates.

The crude oil price already has dropped substantially from its highs at the beginning of the year.

As output and consumption become more stable, investors do not demand as large a risk premium. The lower the price of risk, the higher the price of risky assets.

Emerging market stocks and bonds are down for the year and their economic growth is slowing.

As Medvedev pointed out, a raw materials based economy is always vulnerable to volatile commodity prices.

When housing prices fell, so did the value of the mortgages and the securities based upon them.

High commodity prices have benefited producers of oil and gas (such as Venezuela and Bolivia) and minerals (such as Chile).

Steadily rising prices of raw materials, agricultural products, and energy already reflect fears about future shortages.

In 1970, other OPEC states followed suit, leading to a global increase in the price of crude oil.

They were slashed again in 2001 and kept ultra low after the dot com bust.

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And emerging markets will suffer once the US contraction and global slowdown undermines commodity prices.

Our economies are marked by budgetary and trade imbalances and large import reductions, aggravated by the drop in the price of raw materials.

In nominal, dollar terms, non fuel commodity prices declined at a rate of 4.4 per cent in the period 1991 1993.

The US would topple Saddam, Iraq's vast oil reserves would be unleashed after a short period of reconstruction, and world petroleum prices would drop to under 20 per barrel.

As a result, higher commodity prices are eating into fiscal cushions rather than curtailing demand.

Interest rates were brought to new lows, which helped the economy, but without stimulating much investment.

Thus, when Morales came to power, Bolivia s economy was in a position to take advantage of the global price boom for raw materials.

If interest rates were lowered beyond a certain point, the dollar would come under renewed pressure and long term bonds would actually go up in yield.

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Nickel prices lost 14 per cent, and iron ore prices fell by 4.9 per cent because of the slump in steel production and demand worldwide.

It was noted that more attention should be given to the economic causes of poverty, such as the price of raw materials, trade imbalances and structural adjustment programmes.

The effort was stymied by the price instability of raw material on the world market, which made suppliers reluctant to offer long validities.

For 1992 as a whole, oil prices were reported by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as having fallen an average of 0.4 per cent.

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This has resulted in additional surcharges paid on freight, and for 2006, increases are expected in the cost of production as raw materials prices increase and energy costs are passed on to the products.

Unemployment up. Housing values down. Equity markets down.

Injury crashes have dropped 76 percent, fatal crashes down 90 percent.

The crude birth rate is 30 1,000 and the crude mortality rate is 4.85 1,000.

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