[lbo-talk] speculative fever in oil

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 9 06:55:33 PST 2011


On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Shane Mage wrote:


> In other words, since beyond "speculators and financial investors [but what can it possibly mean to be a "financial investor" in a commodities market?]" there are only hedging producers, in the relatively near term all that pre-sold output can be expected to show up in the market, driving down prices. Who has a better view of future oil market conditions--financial speculators or producing cartels?

Neither has any damn idea.

Doug



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