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Oil's endless bid : taming the unreliable price of oil to secure the economy / Daniel Dicker.

By: Dicker, Daniel, 1960-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2011General Notes: Includes index.Description: xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780470915622; 0470915625.Subject(s): Petroleum products -- Prices | Petroleum reserves | Petroleum industry and trade | Commodity futuresDDC classification: 338.2/3282 Online resources: Cover image | Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
Introduction: The Oil Market Is Broken. -- A Brief Look Back at the Good Old Days of Oil Trading. -- Part I: Oil's Endless Bid: What Caused It? -- The Assetization of Oil, Part 1: Commodities Aren't Stocks. -- The Assetization of Oil, Part 2: The Problem with Commodity Indexes and ETFs. -- The Rise of the Investment Banks and Their Financial Finagling. -- Increased Access to Trading Oil: The Trading Floor Goes Online. -- Part II: The Destruction of Reliable Fundamental Pricing of Oil. -- Why Oil Traders Don't Care about the Price of Oil -- or the Value of the Dollar. -- Oil Traders Couldn't Care Less about Peak Oil. -- Alternative Sources of Oil -- and Why Investors Should Care. -- Proof of Oil's Endless Bid: Crack Spreads. -- The Fuel that the Endless Bid Forgot: Natural Gas. -- Part III: Where Are We Headed? -- What Needs to Be Done. -- Epilogue: Oil's Endless Bid Appears in the Gulf of Mexico. -- Appendices. -- Appendix A: A Brief Review of the History of Futures. -- Appendix B: An Extreme Example of Intervention in the Futures Market: How 3 Dallas Oil Tycoons Tried to Corner the Silver Market.
Summary: Analysis of rising oil prices and the out-of-control oil markets that jeopardize both national security and the economy.
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Includes index.

Introduction: The Oil Market Is Broken. -- A Brief Look Back at the Good Old Days of Oil Trading. -- Part I: Oil's Endless Bid: What Caused It? -- The Assetization of Oil, Part 1: Commodities Aren't Stocks. -- The Assetization of Oil, Part 2: The Problem with Commodity Indexes and ETFs. -- The Rise of the Investment Banks and Their Financial Finagling. -- Increased Access to Trading Oil: The Trading Floor Goes Online. -- Part II: The Destruction of Reliable Fundamental Pricing of Oil. -- Why Oil Traders Don't Care about the Price of Oil -- or the Value of the Dollar. -- Oil Traders Couldn't Care Less about Peak Oil. -- Alternative Sources of Oil -- and Why Investors Should Care. -- Proof of Oil's Endless Bid: Crack Spreads. -- The Fuel that the Endless Bid Forgot: Natural Gas. -- Part III: Where Are We Headed? -- What Needs to Be Done. -- Epilogue: Oil's Endless Bid Appears in the Gulf of Mexico. -- Appendices. -- Appendix A: A Brief Review of the History of Futures. -- Appendix B: An Extreme Example of Intervention in the Futures Market: How 3 Dallas Oil Tycoons Tried to Corner the Silver Market.

Analysis of rising oil prices and the out-of-control oil markets that jeopardize both national security and the economy.

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