Experts in the News

Energy fellow Francisco Monaldi broke down the new global reality for oil as demand plunges and production drops to historic levels. 

"We could see a resurgence of Covid-19 in a big way," said health policy fellow Peter Hotez of the partial reopening of the economy in Texas. 

In an online interview, energy fellow Jim Krane spoke about the relationship between the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia, in addition to the oil industry's struggles with storage and demand. Krane is the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute. 

A proposal to require all producers to cut production may be off the table, but the market was already moving in that direction, said energy fellow Mark Finley. “We may have seen the worst of the demand destruction as the economy begins to get back into motion here in the U.S. and around the world. And as of last Friday, the biggest coordinated production cuts in the history of the world oil market have taken effect.” 

“I hope that other states will exercise caution rather than jump on the bandwagon,” said Baker Institute faculty scholar Dan Wallach of the decision by some states to let voters cast primary ballots online. “We need to defend our elections against nation-state adversaries. Moving toward online voting is the wrong direction to defend our democracy.”