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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMemo to the MSM, the reason oil prices continue to rise has nothing to do with fear of Middle
Eastern protesters, but everything with greed. It is greed, these corrupt bastards manipulate the market due to greed. John Boehner, and the republicon house refuses to fund the Commodities Futures Trade Commission. Why? Because republicons understand that there will be kickbacks from getting out of the way and allowing Wall Street to run amuck.
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Memo to the MSM, the reason oil prices continue to rise has nothing to do with fear of Middle (Original Post)
JRLeft
Sep 2012
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dkf
(37,305 posts)1. You do realize that oil is traded worldwide?
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)3. Yes, and most of the speculation occurs on Wall Street.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)4. You do realize that oil prices are manipulated by Wall St. worldwide?
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)2. S P E C U L A T O R S !!
And in case you haven't noticed, they've been doing this with food crops for years.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)5. Yes, they have and will continue without hinderance.
madashelltoo
(1,696 posts)6. Uh, did someone say, "FUCKING KOCH BROTHERS"?
jwirr
(39,215 posts)7. IMHO I think it is all about the oil companies making sure we blame President Obama for this and we
should be pointing this out in every form of media we can find. This is the plan from corporate America to defeat him and manipulating the economy and unemployment figures is all part of it.