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  • June 2011
    Natural Gas Rent-Seeking

    Four-dollar gasoline and natural gas. This per gallon price is high for the oil industry and per MMBtu price low for the natural...

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  • June 2011
    New Low

    New Low Obama Administration Taps Strategic Reserve to Lower Oil Prices Raise Approval Ratings WASHINGTON – This morning, the Obama Administration announced...

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  • June 2011
    Up from the ground, came a bunch...

    This is not 1962 and this is not a re-run of the television show “The Beverly Hillbillies,” but currently there are many people in...

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  • June 2011
    Bernanke Denies Culpability in Oil Prices

    This blog post is available as a PDF here. In a speech on June 7 in Atlanta at the International Monetary Conference,...

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  • June 2011
    The CFTC Cracks Down on Speculators

    On May 24 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed lawsuits against oil traders, alleging that they manipulated the oil markets in...

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  • June 2011
    The Polka Plan

    It is ironic that President Obama happens to be in Poland on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. offshore drilling moratorium, imposed...

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