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President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at Rhode Island College in Providence, R.I. on Oct. 31, 2014.Evan Vucci鈥擜PBy Zeke J MillerOctober 31, 2014 12:21 PM EDTPresident Barack Obama violated the first rule of Halloween Friday: If you bring candy, bring enough for the entire class.Speaking at Rhode Island College at an event highlighting Democratic priorities for women stanley cup , Obama refe stanley cup renced Friday evening annual trick-or-treat at the White House. A good thi stanley cup ng about being president is we never run out of presidential MMs, Obama said, referencing the customized candy boxes handed out at the White House and aboard Air Force One bearing the president signature. And so wersquo;re going to be giving those out.When a member of the audience shouted that she wanted some candy, Obama was forced to dash her hopes. You want some, is that what you said Obama asked as the crowd roared. Only to kids, he added to laughter.In practice, the Presidential chocolate candies are a perk for VIPs, young and old, who visit the White House or ride on Air Force One. Sometimes even members of the White House press corps, who pay to travel with the President, are offered a box. The boxes have been known to end up for resale on online auction sites like Ebay.Obama spoke wistfully of when his daughters were younger, saying Malia and Sasha are now too old to dress up for Halloween.Thatrsquo so sad. You know, I used t Wxjl Jared Kushner Has Hired a New Power Lawyer to Represent Him in the Russia Probe
A CNPC nodding donkey oil pump i mizuno s seen at sunset in an oilfield outside Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China.Lucas Schifresmdash;Pictobank/Getty ImagesBy Justin WorlandMarch 11, 2020 4:00 PM EDTOil prices slipped as low as $30 per barrel this week as the new coronavirus, COVID-19, led to shuttered factories and Saudi Arabia and Russia ramping up oil p jordan roduction.The future of oil prices will shape how the world recovers from the coronavirus outbreak and the fate of regional and national economies, not to mention how the world responds, or doesn ;t, to the urgent threat of climate change.As the world, and the markets, struggle to assess the impact of the collapse in oil prices, here are answers to six key questions:Why did this happen There are two reasons for the oil-price collapse. First, coronavirus has reduced economic activity, from factories shuttering in China to international air travel declining dramatically. That decline in economic activity, in turn, leads to reduced demand for oil, the energy source that largely powers the global economy.Usually, a collapse in oil companies leads oil producers, particularly OPEC, the cartel that accounts for 40% of the world oil production, to slow down their production to try to raise prices. But last skechers week a meeting of OPEC members plus Russia fell apart after Russia refused to agree to slow production. Instead, Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world second and third-largest producers of crude oil, respectively,