On November 20, two explosions rattled Istanbul, pushing the price of
oil up to $32/bbl. Eventually, the
rally receded:
It's hard to sustain prices at this level,'' said Marshall Steeves,
an analyst with Refco
Group Ltd. in New York. There has to be a constant stream of
unsettling news
Haven't read Nizan yet, but maybe the Iraq campaign was more of a
Goldfinger move. Remember Goldfinger? He wanted to render all the gold
in Fort Knox radioactive so that _his_ gold would be worth more.
One view of the war holds that it was over control of oil. This
translates in a lot of people's
