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Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''As I have noted before, oil supplies aren t being squeezed. Over 80 percent of America s energy needs are now being satisfied by domestic supplies. But Wall Street is betting on higher oil prices in the future - and that betting is causing prices to rise. These bets are pushing up oil prices because Wall Street firms and other big financial players now dominate oil trading.''

http://www.truth-out.org/why-republicans-arent-mentioning-real-cause-rising-prices-gas-pump/1331903825

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Big oil, big government, and big hypocrisy

Libertarian Alliance
by Kevin Carson

03/19/12

It s interesting that politicians who so tirelessly proclaim their opposition to government meddling in the economy, and deny the effectiveness of such meddling, would express such hubris on the ability of activist government to solve an economic problem. Not only do these people fail to understand the nature of the problem they are promising to fix, but the promised fix itself is chock full of government intervention...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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