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PROBLEM: OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo  speaks to the media during  his  visit in Abuja  Nigeria Febuary 27  2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - OPECâs Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo on Tuesday called on U.S. shale oil producers to help curtail global oil supply  warning extraordinary measures might be needed next year to sustain the rebalanced market in the medium to long term.
âWe urge our friends  in the shale basins of North America to take this shared responsibility with all seriousness it deserves  as one of the key lessons learnt from the current unique supply-driven cycle â said  Barkindo .
âAt the moment we (OPEC and independent U.S. producers) both agreed that we have a shared responsibility in maintaining stability because they are also not insulated from the impact of this downturn â  Barkindo  said  referring to a slide in oil prices that spurred OPEC to agree production cuts late last year.
While OPEC and some other producers  including Russia have cut supplies this year in order to prop up prices  U.S. production has soared by almost 10 percent this year  driven largely by shale drillers.  Barkindo  said  he  hoped that new producers  not just U.S. shale drillers  would join production cuts.
âDemand-supply is returning to rebalance through massive destocking that we have been witnessing of stocks in OECD across regions in a very massive way â  Barkindo  said later  speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the conference.
âIn the past four months alone  we have seen destocking to the tune of 130 million bpd â  he  said.
The aim of the OPEC-led cut is to trim the level of oil in OECD industrialized countries compared with the five-year supply average.  Barkindo  said the stock overhang to the five-year average stood at 171 million barrels in August  against 338 million at the start of the year.
âThe speed and pace (of destocking) has accelerated as a result of anticipated and projected demand growth in the second half of 2017 to the tune of 2 million bpd. We are witnessing a fast return to a balanced market â  Barkindo  said.
Still  on  Sunday Barkindo  said OPEC and other oil producers might need to take âsome extraordinary measuresâ next year to rebalance the oil market.
World oil demand growth in 2017 is expected at 1.45 million barrels per day (BPD) and it should stay around 1.4 million bpd in 2018   Barkindo  said.  He  said Indiaâs share of global oil demand is expected to rise to over 9 percent by 2040  up from 4 percent now.

SOLUTION: Mohammed Barkindo

PROBLEM: The White House projects a large gap between government spending and tax revenue over the next decade  adding at least $7 trillion to the debt over that time. In 2019 and 2020 alone  the government would add a combined $2 trillion in debt under  Trump ’s plan.
Even with upbeat economic forecasts and numerous proposed cuts to social programs — most of which are expected tol be dead on arrival in Congress — the  Trump  administration projects that it would run a deficit of $450 billion in 2027.
Democrats  though  reacted with hostility  saying the proposal confirmed their long-held belief that  Trump  would pivot from large tax cuts for corporations to a push to scale back government benefits for low-income Americans.
“The  Trump  budget proposal makes clear  his  desire to enact massive cuts to health care  anti-poverty programs  and investments in economic growth to blunt the deficit-exploding impact of  his  tax cuts for millionaires and corporations ” Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky  the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee  said. “These cuts to critical federal investments are so extreme they can only reflect a disdain for working families and a total lack of vision for a stronger society.”
Republicans have long called for eliminating the budget deficit  but  Trump  has ushered in a new economic strategy  jettisoning deficit fears in favor of a low-tax  high-spending model that  he  thinks will boost the economy. Such an approach has risks  particularly as government debt levels are projected to grow at least $7 trillion over the next decade.
Last year   Trump  and  his  budget director  Mick Mulvaney  sought to use the budget as a way to promise that the deficit would be eliminated over 10 years  even though many of its proposals were not enacted.

SOLUTION: Trumpbudget

PROBLEM: Little evidence has surfaced yet that the protests are organized or have spawned any opposition leaders. It is too early to tell how long the protesters can keep the pressure on the regime to change. In their endeavors  however  it is precisely to Latin America that Iranian protesters should look for guidance â in Iranâs ally Venezuela  where nearly a year of daily protests did nothing to stop  socialist dictator NicolÃ¡s Maduro  from consolidating  his  power.
Where Venezuelaâs street protesters succeeded in attracting international attention  the governmentâs official opposition failed by adopting policies that enabled the regime. For years  the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD)  a Venezuelan opposition coalition led by socialists  attempted to engage in dialogue with the regime. Venezuela saw minimal protests throughout 2016 largely because the opposition leadership was too busy in âdialoguesâ with  Maduro  that resulted in no concrete changes in the country. It happened again last year  when  Maduro  called for a round of elections in which  he  decreed who could run for office and controlled the institutions counting the votes.
The protesters on the streets rejected  Maduroâs  mockery of democracy. The MUD participated  losing a number of member parties along the way. By November  the MUD had called for another round of talks with the government  and protests in the country were all but unheard of.
Venezuelaâs protesters only met half of this challenge. As noted above  the opposition appeared united only in their rejection of  Maduro . Some leaders of the opposition were socialists and demanded only that elections occur â without specifying that they be free and fair. Others identified the socialist system as the problem and have demanded a full overhaul of Venezuelaâs institutions to create a free and democratic capitalist state. Yet more leaders demanded individual fixes  like the liberation of political prisoners or humanitarian aid for the hungry. Outside of âno more  Maduro  â the oppositionâs message was  and  sadly  continues to be  a mess.

SOLUTION:
NicolÃ¡s Maduro