
Well Duh: Relaxed Regulations and Exploding Speculation Cause Wildly Fluctuating Gas Prices

But from an another point of view, are wild oil price fluctuations really all that bad? In my experience, it doesn’t take a higher degree and advanced knowledge of oil economics to see that rampant speculation is behind the crazy swings in oil prices we’ve seen in recent years. Even so, it’s a topic that economists and pundits have debated ad nauseum










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andrewgreig (Andrew Greig) : Every hour a day in front of the TV doing nothing else leads to an 11% added risk of death by all causes - Baker Institute (Melb).. Updated : 2010-03-09T21:28:08Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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LaPeninaEffect (Penina Reid) : "Diplomacy Rebooted: Making Digital Statecraft a Reality" - Chris Bronk, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy http://bit.ly/d0tRH1.. Updated : 2010-03-09T02:57:53Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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notIDFspokesman (Not the IDF) : RT @jamiesw: James A. Baker Institute: Mapping the Territorial Contours of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement http://is.gd/9QGoj [.pdf].. Updated : 2010-03-07T06:55:45Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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Good News for Medical Marijuana | Baker Institute Blog
[Political News]Earlier this week, the Justice Department sent a memo to fourteen federal prosecutors, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), instructing them not to arrest or prosecute people who sell or use marijuana in compliance with state laws, even though federal law still prohibits such activity. This is a welcome change...
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Cato Institute v. Heritage Foundation on the Patriot Act
[Political Opinion]Julian Sanchez says the government has collected far more information than needed. Jena Baker McNeill says some of the proposed changes would remove the most effective portions of the Patriot Act.
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Providing health insurance for US children would be cheaper
[Political News]Extending health insurance coverage to all children in the U.S. would be relatively inexpensive and would yield economic benefits that are greater than the costs, according to new research conducted at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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Beck & Panel Discuss Holocaust Museum Shooter (VIDEOS)
[Political News]Mike Baker, former CIA operative, author Joel Rosenberg, and Harry Binswanger of the Ayn Rand Institute were all on Beck today to discuss the obvious event at the Holocaust Museum today. Not only is white supremacist, James Van Brunn discussed, but society’s pressure in general over what’s been happening to us as a people lately. [...]...
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Astronauts from the past weigh in on NASA's future
[Space]A new report by Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy on NASA’s future has stirred some surprising reactions by several former astronauts from the Mercury, Apollo and shuttle eras. Here are some of their responses to the report.





























