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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Norman Rogers
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by Norman Rogers - Oct. 1, 2008

Both the New York Review of Books and George Soros are political nut cases. Soros is a very successful speculator but why would he tell anyone much about how he makes money through speculation? Or is his testimony part of a plot to further his speculations? Certainly his comment on peak oil is right on target. There are huge, huge potential sources of oil given the right price.

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