The Perilous Price of Oil

The public is asking for an answer to two questions. The principal question is whether the sharp oil price increase is a speculative bubble or simply reflects fundamental factors such as rapidly rising demand from developing nations and an increasingly limited supply, caused by the dwindling availability of easily extractable oil reserves. The second question is related to the first. If the oil price increase is at least partly a result of speculation, ... Full Story »

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by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

I'm no economist. So I'm always grateful when somebody who is more expert than I am can explain economic forces in a way that makes sense. Soros has done that. Of course, any economic theory is just that--a theory--unless you can produce lots of evidence that it works. While he hasn't done that here, his theories have made him a wealthy man. So they're worth listening to.

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