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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. This is one of several eligibility criteria.