Thanks to the IMF’s Historical Public Debt Database and a special request: Public Debt as a % of GDP for Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica 1980 to 2012: Also, a question coming out of the above chart: What was going on in Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica – from a macro or big picture point…
Read More Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica: Debt as a Percentage of GDP, 1980 to 2012The objective of today’s post is to locate, explore and compare/contrast historical data re: Public debt as a percentage of GDP for several Caribbean countries. First, we have to find the data: The Google query “debt to gdp imf” brings us – ironically – to the IMF (Barbadians take note). In particular, the query leads us…
Read More Barbados Public Debt as a Percentage of GDP 1980 to 2012Two new charts today! The first chart shows the usual gasoline and diesel pump prices – on the left axis – for 2017 to date. But this time, the price of a barrel of oil for 2017 to date is now shown on the right axis. The second chart has the same pricing info, but…
Read More Gasoline, Diesel and a Barrel of OilFor this post, I was curious about the prices of oil during 2015 through 2017 relative to the prices of gas and diesel in Barbados during the same period. The United States Energy Information Administration website has a ton of pricing data, so I pulled WTI and Brent crude oil prices from their website: With these prices…
Read More Barbados Fuel Prices RevisitedOn November 3 I wrote about the possibility – based on past data – of a price change in November for gasoline and diesel. That change occurred on November 6. Gasoline fell from $3.38 to $3.19 BDS per litre and diesel rose from $2.37 to $2.52 BDS per litre. The chart below shows the price of…
Read More Fuel Prices Jan 2015 to Nov 2017