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The Smoking Gun of Higher Oil Prices

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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Banker Lies and Misrepresentation — The Present and Lessons From the Past

As featured on The Huffington Post: Yesterday U.S. prosecutors accused two low-level JPMorgan executives with criminal charges of wire fraud and falsifying regulatory filings of risky and complex credit derivatives that led to the bank’s massive loses in the ‘London Whale’ scandal. JPMorgan, as do all banks, had the obligation to honestly report its assets…
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The Cost of Nearly Everything Is Rigged, Enriching the Bank Fixers

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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JPMorgan Exits Physical Commodity Trading

As featured on The Huffington Post: Quite dramatically, being the biggest bull in the China shop, JPMorgan Chase made the striking announcement this past week that it would quit trading in physical commodities. This in a week during which a Senate panel held hearings on whether banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are manipulating commodity/material…
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After Costing Americans Billions, Federal Reserve Reexamines Banks’ Commodity Speculation

As featured on The Huffington Post: “The Fed regularly monitors the commodity activities of supervised firms and is reviewing the 2003 determination that certain commodity activities are complimentary to financial activities and thus permissible to bank holding companies” comments from Fed spokeswoman and reported by Bloomberg (“Fed Reviews Rule On Big Banks’ Commodity Trading after…
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