June 8, 2008 at 15:36:14

Connecting the Dots on Rising Oil Prices

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One can't help but wonder whether any future global economic depression, a post-modern "dark age"--and should society as a whole fail to affect a change of course to avoid being swept into the abyss, this outcome is virtually inevitable--would similarly be attributed to such mythical "failures".

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[1] David Cho, "Investors' Growing Appetite for Oil Evades Market Limits: Trading Loophole for Wall Street Speculators Is Driving Up Prices, Critics Say", The Washington Post, June 6, 2008; A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060504322_pf.html

[2] Ibid.

[3] Jad Mouawad, "Oil Prices Take a Nerve-Rattling Jump Past $138", The New York Times, June 7, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/business/07oil.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

[4] Ibid.

[5] Louis Uchitelle, "Oil Prices Raise Cost of Making a Range of Goods", The New York Times, June 8, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/business/08oil.html?

ei=5087&em=&en=2405c5b185fe7e35&ex=1212984000&pagewanted=print

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