As posted on The Huffington Post: The U.S. oil market is well supplied, with U.S. commercial crude oil inventories near all time highs, with production of U.S. oil increasing by some million barrels/day from a year ago, with weekly inventory of gasoline jumping by 800,00bbls equivalent last week alone, while Chinese demand is flat to…
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You Will Be Paying Higher Gasoline Prices. It Is Essential You Begin to Understand Why!
As featured on The Huffington Post: In the face of escalating gas prices, the oil patch, their allies and Wall Street are counting on your ignorance permitting them to pick your pockets, spoon-feeding you nonsense while they cash in massively. The only defense we have is a vigilante public calling on our government to level…
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Your Price of Gasoline Is Going Up! How Sweet It Is!
As featured on The Huffington Post: Over the past weeks there has been a dramatic, near inexplicable rise in the price of crude oil with direct impact on what you are paying for gasoline. The price of oil has increased over 10 percent — that is over $10 per barrel. Considering U.S. consumption of near 20…
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Americans Pay at the Pump While Speculators Profit and Play
As featured on The Huffington Post: Incredibly, since the later part of June, the price of oil has spiked by $12 a barrel to close at $107/bbl yesterday, a jump of close to 15 percent over three weeks. The impact on the rise of gasoline prices is already being felt and will become more accentuated…
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The Price of Oil: Speculation, Manipulation Or a Deeply Broken System
As featured on The Huffington Post: Much of this you may have read here before, but it is worth repeating because the dramatic distortion in oil prices over the past weeks and their potential impact on the economy is becoming acute, and nothing is being done about it. Some two weeks ago the Federal Trade…
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Is Saudi Arabia’s Trojan Horse Spiking Gasoline Prices Americans Are Paying at the Pump?
As featured on The Huffington Post: Sorry, this is going to be on the longish side. Consider the following one-year price fluctuations: On June 27, 2012 the price for: Gold – $1561.80/oz one year later $ 1235.50 oz. Silver- $ 26.48/oz one year later $ 18.84 oz Copper-$ 3.32/lb one year later $ 3.05 lb….
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WSJ Gets It Right — Highlights Italy Probe of Soccer Clubs, Ignores FTC Probe of Oil Price Fixing
As featured on The Huffington Post: The Wall Street Journal provided us with a sterling example of our mainstream media’s willful ignorance and paucity of coverage on one of the core economic issues of our time — the perversion and distortion of oil prices and its cost in billions to consumers in the U.S. and throughout…
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BIOGRAPHY

Raymond J. Learsy, a graduate of the Wharton School, made his life in the fast-paced, risk-filled world of commodities trading, beginning in 1959. In 1963, he started his own firm and over twenty years expanded from the U.S. into Canada, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Brazil, and Pakistan, trading in an array of bulk raw materials and commodities, shipping to customers worldwide. In the 1980s, he shifted gears as a private investor, from 1982 to 1988, served as a Reagan appointee to the National Endowment for the Arts...