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Our Economy Sorely Needs a Boost. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Anyone?

Unemployment is still over 7 percent, the Fed has signaled the gradual end of its QE3 program, the stock market is retreating and the economy still remains deeply sluggish. Yet the price of oil remains at an exorbitant $95 barrel, totally without justification given the near-record inventories on hand and the booming production in the…
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Russian Arms, Syria and the Price of Oil

As featured on The Huffington Post: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in a broadcast this Thursday past, boasted of the Russian arms deliveries to the Syrian regime that would include deliveries of a highly advanced anti-aircraft weapons system. Whether accurate or not, the Russians are clearly stoking the fires of the Syrian debacle and now…
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