Liam Denning, Columnist

Making Halliburton Great Again

Favoring oil exports over imports would supercharge pricing power.

January 23, 2017 at 6:06 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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