The McCain Oil Price Premium

14 July 2008

When you consider it, it is obvoius that there is a differential in oil pricing that will result from the coming US presidential election.  But for some reason no one has brought this up anywhere, as far as I can tell.  So let’s take a look.
I first suggested this subject in my opening remarks at [...]

Black Friday

7 June 2008

Friday was tough in world and US markets, no matter what measure you use. Despite their reliance on unreliable numbers, the US govt. still admitted to remarkably high unemployment figures, and oil took twice the largest jump per day of anything seen in decades. The equities markets responded with negative vigor.
Perhaps we’ve reached [...]