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Commentary: Could falling oil prices spark a financial crisis?

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For investors, this offers the opportunity for high yield, which is why hundreds of billions of dollars helped finance companies in disparate parts of the country looking to drill in shale. When oil prices were high and production was relentlessly climbing, energy related junk bonds looked highly profitable.

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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The document is posted on State’s Keystone project site , which it has run since the beginning of the Keystone XL Presidential permit process in 2008. The dominant drivers of oil sands development are more global than any single infrastructure project. Rail Direct to the Gulf Coast Scenario.

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