The New York Times‘ Ed Andrews had an interesting story yesterday which appeared on the paper’s splash page and then quickly disappeared. The story said that U.S. financial regulators—in particular the Commodity Futures Trading Commission—is considering limiting oil trading volume by “purely financial investors” and that it “already has adopted tougher information requirements aimed...
Read more »
Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ oil ’
Oil Speculators to be Curbed?
NYT spotlights the derivatives lobby
The New York Times posted a long and important story by Gretchen Morgenson and Don Van Natta yesterday discussing the derivative industry’s sneaky lobbying campaign to prevent effective regulation of their profitable scam. It notes that the flaws in the Obama Administration’s proposal to regulate derivatives appear to track nicely with the industry’s desires....
Read more »
Worth a read
The March issue of Harper’s serves as a reminder of what a great magazine can be. Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ “The Last Book Party” recalls the tight-lipped feel of an 1960s Esquire bit by Gay Talese or Truman Capote. Washington Editor Ken Silverstein’s “Invisible Hands” conveys an intimacy with the secret world of oil deal brokers...
Read more »
Crude Oil vs. Gas at the Pump
Here’s something I’ve been pondering: Crude oil prices are almost comically low, yet gas prices have not been falling. Sure, they’re like half what they were last summer. But it wasn’t long ago that $2 gas was not good news. And anyway, back a few months ago, when regular unleaded was $1.48, wasn’t crude,...
Read more »
Trending
Real-Life Embarassing Sex Stories Feature: Submitted by City Paper readers 2/13/2013
The Multiple Personalities of Baltimore Fashion Feature: Fashion galleries from Towson Town Center, Harbor East, Current Space, around Mount Vernon, and the Skatepark. 6/19/2013
Eat Pussy Like a Porn Star Charm City Porn Star: After performing in nearly 1,500 scenes with over 1,400 women and having won three AVN Awards I am more-than-qualified to speak on this matter. By Kurt Lockwood 5/29/2013
Savage Love Savage Love: Interest in incest By Dan Savage 6/19/2013
Murder Ink Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 95 By Edward Ericson Jr. 6/12/2013
Sharp Dressed Man City Folk: Chris Schafer brings custom menswear back to Baltimore By Bret Mccabe 6/19/2013