Oil Prices Are Falling. Here's Where That Could Spell Trouble.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : One runs the bank that takes in oil payments from abroad and the other controls the oil fields.
49% : Next door, Iraq depends on oil for an estimated 80 percent of government revenue, so a drop in price would force it to take measures like not paying public sector salaries for chunks of time, a step sure to create domestic discontent.
40% : But in oil producing nations, lower prices can feed economic troubles, and sometimes political unrest, as governments slash spending.
38% : Public sector businesses and a bloated government payroll were so dependent on high oil prices that when they collapsed, analysts said, the ensuing economic problems sparked widespread protests that the government put down violently.

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