How The U.S. Energy Boom Is Transforming Geopolitics

All through the years of the great recession, during the bombed out aftermath of 2008's financial crisis that saw jobs, wages, and growth recover at a frustratingly slow pace, something unusual began to happen in states like North Dakota and Pennsylvania: oil and gas production began to grow and then accelerate - beginning from low, inconsequential levels. Improbably, the State of North Dakota now produces more oil than former OPEC state Indonesia. And Pennsylvania's natural gas production has g...