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Monday, May 20 2013
The Crude Reality Of Oil Prices

THE bankers have finally got their revenge. Oil traders claim that influential bankers, furious that that their sector has been squeezed by regulators since the 2008 crash, have persuaded Brussels that oil traders should no longer be able to operate without the same rigorous rules. According to the bankers, oil traders behave worse than money brokers. And so the Eurocrats raided the offices of BP, Shell and Platts, comparing their investigation into oil price-rigging with the one into the bankers' Libor scandal. By focusing on Platts, an unusual reporting agency whose methods to discover the price of oil often provoke accusations of dishonesty, the Eurocrats have won public sympathy ...

Taxing Times For Obama
IWENT to New York last week to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows like 'Scandal', 'Shark Tank' and a faltering 'American Idol'. I may as well have stayed here. You know that the faltering American idol in the White House must be reeling in this scandalous spring. 'No Drama Obama' is immersed in drama so over the top it could have been scripted by Shonda Rhimes and Karl Rove. Just four months after his second inauguration, the president is buffeted by gushing investigations, smug and deranged Republicans, and cat-whoate- the-canary ...
Al Watan - Arabic Newspaper
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