Global| Mar 12 2019

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The retail price for gasoline rose to $2.42 per gallon last week (-5.4% y/y).......... These data are reported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The price data can be found in Haver's WEEKLY and DAILY databases. Greater detail on [...]

The retail price for gasoline rose to $2.42 per gallon last week (-5.4% y/y)..........

These data are reported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The price data can be found in Haver's WEEKLY and DAILY databases. Greater detail on prices, as well as the demand, production and inventory data, along with regional breakdowns, are in OILWKLY.

Weekly Energy Prices	03/11/19	03/04/19	02/25/19	Y/Y %	2018	2017	2016
Retail Gasoline ($ per Gallon Regular, Monday Price, End of Period)	2.42	2.39	2.32	-5.4	2.27	2.47	2.31
Light Sweet Crude Oil, WTI ($ per bbl, Previous Week's Average)	56.14	56.75	53.89	-9.6	64.95	50.87	43.22
Natural Gas ($/mmbtu, LA, Previous Week's Average)	2.97	2.72	2.66	12.5	3.18	2.99	2.51

Gerald D. Cohen
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Gerald Cohen provides strategic vision and leadership of the translational economic research and policy initiatives at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

He has worked in both the public and private sectors focusing on the intersection between financial markets and economic fundamentals. He was a Senior Economist at Haver Analytics from January 2019 to February 2021. During the Obama Administration Gerald was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury where he helped formulate and evaluate the impact of policy proposals on the U.S. economy. Prior to Treasury, he co-managed a global macro fund at Ziff Brothers Investments.

Gerald holds a bachelor’s of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and is a contributing author to 30-Second Money as well as a co-author of Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy.
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