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CounterTerrorismBlog: OPEC War against America's Economic Independence?

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Posted by 3dc 2008-10-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 OPEC War against America's Economic Independence?

Only with America's tacit approval. That's what happens when government is too difficult to get at.

Posted by gorb 2008-10-11 01:25|| 2008-10-11 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 IMO, the crisis is due mainly to letting MBA(s) run businesses.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-11 07:46|| 2008-10-11 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 SEC is investigating whether some massive moves late in the last few days appear to be coordinated computerized trading. Standard thing for them to investigate but pretty important to answer.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-11 10:20|| 2008-10-11 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Did the SEC ever answer the allegations that there was very heavy shorting of the NYSE from the Middle East just before the Sept. 11 islamic attacks?

Posted by ed 2008-10-11 10:26|| 2008-10-11 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 The 9/11 commission did - they tracked the puts to balancing purchases by a US institutional trader that were part of a portfolio adjustment prior to the end of the quarter IIRC.

Posted by lotp 2008-10-11 11:18|| 2008-10-11 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks.

Posted by ed 2008-10-11 11:31|| 2008-10-11 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I try not to indulge myself in conspiracy theories...but am I the only one here who thinks the timing of all this stuff - subprime meltdown followed in rapid succession by oil shock, Lehman, AIG, etc. tanking, credit markets freezing and the stock market crashing, and all right before the election - is just a little too convenient?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-10-11 17:56|| 2008-10-11 17:56|| Front Page Top

#8 As you said on another thread, Soros-type convenient.

The fact that he's still breathing is absolute proof the British don't have a real-life James Bond. >:-(

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