oil money

So that would not, at first sight, seem to suggest that oil money has been driving bond yields up and down.

Yet luck, like oil money, tends to run out sooner or later.

Many Republicans complained that Democrats were creating a slush fund with the oil money that would be sealed off from public debate.

The Iraqi government is barely able to collect taxes and spending is financed almost entirely from oil money.

Feng, the party secretary, has decided to spend a large portion of the oil money on education.

People always said Bush had the best environmental legislation oil money can buy.

Mr Bashir could also turn on his former enemies in the south by simply reducing the share of oil money they get.

There were other sources of liquidity, too: oil money and sovereign wealth funds built up by countries with surplus savings.

It just shows that the power of oil money counts for more than justice.

They may also be getting their hands on some much-needed oil money.

"Nigerian politics is one big bun-fight over oil money, " says Antony Goldman, a consultant.

Only the elite, flush with oil money, could afford the white goods and Japanese sound-systems.

Even so, traditional finance houses rather than Islamic institutions continue to handle most Gulf oil money and other Muslim wealth.

Oil money pays for the bombs going off from Baghdad to Beirut, and the bombast of dictators from Caracas to Tehran.

What happens to the oil money after the referendum on southern independence is open to negotiation.

According to Nigeria's own corruption agency, up to $400bn of oil money has been stolen or wasted over the past 50 years.

Mr. Nasrallah does the oil money that you get come from Arab coffers?

Not all funds involve oil money. A good example is the China Investment Corporation.

If they were let loose, the scramble for oil money could easily turn violent.

In the latest budget, over 40% of the precious oil money, South Sudan's only source of income, has been earmarked for military expenditure.

But the feuding theories at this year's Oil & Money conference also show how hard it is to pinpoint a cause.

I'd have thought that oil money would have produced more than 22 billionaires in, say, UAE or Saudi Arabia, for instance.

With his coffers full of oil money, and Europeans dependent on his oil, Mr Ahmadinejad is confident he can ride out any sanctions.

Those issues also include where to draw the more than two-thousand-kilometer-long border and how to share oil money.

Russia remains a formidable nuclear power, and now it is also a country swimming in oil money.

Marvin : That must be because they have so much oil money. I'm from Pennsylvania, so I wouldn't know.

So it is worrying that there is far more debate in Brazil about how to spend the oil money than about how to develop the fields.

The oil money creates an illusion of development, but not jobs.

In the video, members of OL are making fun of the government for its "waste" of oil money.

What a difference in 17 years. Just shows what a little oil money can do.

That growth is not because of oil money flowing into bank accounts.

Not all funds involve oil money.

And you're not going to have any more oil money.

Perhaps so, but only so long as Mr Bush is around to hate, and so long as the oil money lasts.

It is oil money and legal.

The oil money has entrenched an autocratic and corrupt political system that is resistant to change.

For example, he noted that they have passed a budget and are sharing oil money with the provinces.

His Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power comes out in a new edition next month

The writer is author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, and is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Another good way to spend your lovely oil money