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The Smoking Gun of Higher Oil Prices

By RayLearsy | Published September 16, 2013

As featured on The Huffington Post: There, in plain sight for all to read, the highly influential New York Times, in an article about the manipulative speculation in ethanol markets and the obscure but phenomenally profitable ethanol credits (having skyrocketed more than 20 times in the last six months) and in turn its impact on the price for gasoline…
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Also tagged Business News, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Ethanol, Financial Crisis, Gas & Oil, Jpmorgan, Morgan Stanley, The Fed, The New York Times | Tagged Business News, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Congress, Ethanol, Financial Crisis, Gas & Oil, Jpmorgan, Morgan Stanley, The Fed, The New York Times | Leave a comment

France’s “Cri de Guerre”

By RayLearsy | Published September 2, 2013

As featured on The Huffington Post: Ironically it is America’s first ally, France, that has held firm to the precept of holding the Syrian regime accountable for their slaughter of innocents in breach of international law by the indiscriminate use of poison gas, and at that the most gruesomely deadly agent in the lexicon of…
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Also tagged Al Qaeda, Auschwitz, Barack Obama, Damascus, France, France President Hollande, Islamic Radicalism, Le Monde, Mali, Parliament, Sarin, Syria, World, World News | Tagged Al Qaeda, Auschwitz, Barack Obama, Congress, Damascus, France, France President Hollande, Islamic Radicalism, Le Monde, Mali, Parliament, Sarin, Syria, World, World News | Leave a comment

The Cost of Nearly Everything Is Rigged, Enriching the Bank Fixers

By RayLearsy | Published August 12, 2013

As featured on The Huffington Post: That banks are able to manipulate became clear as a bell with the findings of the Libor interest rate fixing scandal (“Everything is Rigged: The Biggest Price Fixing Scandal Ever” Rolling Stone 04.25.13) whereby some sixteen too big to fail banks were accused of colluding to manipulate interest rates…
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Also tagged Bart Chilton, Business News, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Financial Crisis, Gas & Oil, Goldman Sachs, Jpmorgan, Justice Department, Libor, Libor Rate-Rigging Scandal, London Whale, Senate Banking Committee, The Fed, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown | Tagged Bart Chilton, Business News, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Congress, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Financial Crisis, Gas & Oil, Goldman Sachs, Jpmorgan, Justice Department, Libor, Libor Rate-Rigging Scandal, London Whale, Senate Banking Committee, The Fed, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown | Leave a comment

The Price of Oil Is Rigged

By RayLearsy | Published August 5, 2013

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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Also tagged Barack Obama, Brent Crude, Business News, Department Of Energy, European Commission, Gas & Oil, Justice Department, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Unctad, WTI | Tagged Barack Obama, Brent Crude, Business News, Congress, Department Of Energy, European Commission, Gas & Oil, Justice Department, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Unctad, WTI | Leave a comment