Going Roundin Circles
Reports from the New York Commodity Exchange are always intimidating. A third of the world’s crude oil is traded at the Mercantile Exchange and last week prices reached US$120 per barrel. Yet the government remains firm about not raising fuel prices.
April 29, 2008
EVENING was beginning to fall. Carrying a large bag in one hand, a Pizza Hut delivery boy entered a lift at the Fiscal Policy Board (BKF) building in Lapangan Banteng square, Jakarta, Wednesday last week. On the third floor, members of staff from the Department of Finance greeted him. In less than five minutes, he came down again.
After wrestling with figures for around three hours, this famous Italian food was the evening meal for members of a
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