Energy Engineering Blog: Oil prices revisited..

Jan 12, 2009

Oil prices revisited..

The 60 Minutes show on CBS looked at the role of speculation in influencing recent spike and downturn in oil prices. Of note here is that there still seems to be little evidence that the markets were manipulated.
Nari has a couple of articles on this issue.
Opinion: Oil Prices Depend on More on Speculation than assumed previously
Speculation in Crude Oil, Middle men and prices

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Anonymous said...: Nice Video, informative.; January 21, 2009 at 2:24 AM

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