Comments on: Analysis and recommendations regarding oil and the Index Speculators http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/22/analysis-and-recommendations-regarding-oil-speculation/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Janet Rose http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/22/analysis-and-recommendations-regarding-oil-speculation/#comment-312008 Janet Rose Fri, 23 May 2008 04:11:50 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6442#comment-312008 Regulation of an investment like commodities results in behavior that obviates the regulation and makes the speculative activity more aggressive than it would have been without the regulation. Rather than regulate commodities, you might consider asking Ben Bernanke to reduce the massive money supply increases that he and Alan Greenspan have been pursuing. Blaming speculators for central bank incompetence is an old tactic. Any market can correct itself unless it has been artificially inflated by central bank policy. You are making the problem worse, not better. You might try an occupation different from economics. You are not very good at economics. Regulation of an investment like commodities results in behavior that obviates the regulation and makes the speculative activity more aggressive than it would have been without the regulation. Rather than regulate commodities, you might consider asking Ben Bernanke to reduce the massive money supply increases that he and Alan Greenspan have been pursuing. Blaming speculators for central bank incompetence is an old tactic. Any market can correct itself unless it has been artificially inflated by central bank policy. You are making the problem worse, not better. You might try an occupation different from economics. You are not very good at economics.

]]> By: feeblemind http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/22/analysis-and-recommendations-regarding-oil-speculation/#comment-311981 feeblemind Thu, 22 May 2008 04:41:34 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6442#comment-311981 Thanks for the post. I had never heard of index speculators. I need to think about this. Thanks for the post. I had never heard of index speculators. I need to think about this.

]]> By: Lesley http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/22/analysis-and-recommendations-regarding-oil-speculation/#comment-311979 Lesley Thu, 22 May 2008 03:31:12 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6442#comment-311979 Dear Mr. Risko, Thank you for linking Mike Master's Senate Testimony. It would seem to me that our government would better off dealing with Index Speculators than suing OPEC. I genuinely don't understand what Congress hopes to accomplish with an anti-trust suit. Dear Mr. Risko,

Thank you for linking Mike Master’s Senate Testimony. It would seem to me that our government would better off dealing with Index Speculators than suing OPEC. I genuinely don’t understand what Congress hopes to accomplish with an anti-trust suit.

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