Time to declare: Oil Shock 2008

Today is the high time to declare we are officially in oil shock of 2008, beating 70s in prices, but not in terms of the hit to the economy. Nonetheless, nobody should feel complacent about it.

Jim Hamilton has these two graphs to share:

oil price jun 08 Time to declare: Oil Shock 2008

Oil crises in 70s made the economy today less reliant on oil, but don’t take it for granted.

oil to gdp jun 08 Time to declare: Oil Shock 2008

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