Tag Archives: Oil Speculation

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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