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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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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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