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But it's not just the dismal scientists she is disavowing with her charges of oil market manipulation.
  • Threatening Iran doesn't help oil prices either

    Other commodities don't show the same speculative push that oil does (gold has fallen some recently), which it would if a falling dollar were the primary reason for speculation. That suggests that another factor, perhaps a fear of supply interruption, is playing on the oil market. Something to think about when presidential canidates are outdoing each other with threats to obliterate Iran, not to mention the talk about Iran arming Iraqi militias.