Current Analysis Notes on Low Oil Prices and Their Implications After about three years of hovering around $110 per barrel, with highs of $125 and lows of $90, oil prices began a precipitous decline in the summer of 2014, reaching a low of $48 per barrel in mid-August 2015 before plummeting to just under $30 per barrel five months later. While investors are no d Miriam R. Lowi • 5 min read
Current Analysis The Lessons Algeria Can Teach Today's Middle East As we witness today the escalating horrors across the Middle East—acute insecurity, combined with varying degrees of violence, death and destruction, from Libya and Egypt, to Syria, Iraq and now Yemen, we may want to recall the Algerian experience of the 1990s and consider some lessons to be drawn f Miriam R. Lowi • 4 min read
