New Year's Eve -- December 31, 2014 -- Links To Start The Day

Links to start the day:

• US - OPEC - Russia in price war
• From the Department of Weekly Fiction
• Jobless claims climb more than forecast -- Bloomberg
• PMI decelerates in December
• When to write a scientific article without using any numbers

Other than 2014 and 2015 (two calendar years) and "... the upper 2,700 feet of the world's oceans" this writer was able to write an entire Scientific American article on global warming without once using any number. LOL. And they call me a denier. LMAO.

• Platts: China's November Russian crude imports hit record high

This warms the cockles of my heart; this is called China-Russia hegemony; it's been one of the "Big Stories" I have followed for quite some time