‘The Asylum:’ New Book Uncovers the Dark Side of the New York Merc
Originally published on CNBC.com on Feb. 15, 2011 “It’s the side of Wall Street Wall Street doesn’t want you to see,” one high-level banker warned me before I ventured down the rabbit hole that would...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to $100 Oil, It’s Every Man for Himself
Originally published on abcnews.go.com on Feb. 24, 2011 Energy Trading Is Rife with Loopholes for Some but Not All Oil topped $100 a barrel for the first time Wednesday since 2008, the same year that...
View ArticleKilling Your Own: The Truth About Oil Speculators
Originally published on huffingtonpost.com on Mar. 14, 2011 In the mid-1990s, the U.S. Marine Corps sent more than a dozen generals, colonels and other high-ranking officers to the trading floor of the...
View ArticleThe Global Oil Casino Benefits Only Its Players
Originally published in The Financial Times on April 6th, 2011 Tensions in the Middle East and north Africa, we are told, lie behind the recent increase in global fuel prices, which Wednesday hit a 2...
View ArticleTrader Threatens To ‘Kill’ 47 U.S. Officials
‘I was being sued…it upset me.’ A midlife crisis can take many forms. Cheating on your spouse. Purchasing a Maserati. Wearing Billabong. Buying into The Lynx Effect. Just being a jerk. But putting up...
View ArticleHow To Make Someone Else Swallow Your Losses, The Mastercourse
It’s official: when a Wall Street powerhouse suddenly collapses and (possibly) more than a billion dollars goes missing, it’s no longer just the ordinary taxpayer’s problem. Now, it has moved up the...
View ArticleQ&A With The Global Journal: Oil Trading And The Casino Syndrome
Happy National Pancake/Leap Year/Week before Super Tuesday Day, all. It has been a turbulent past few months and not just in the oil market. I will get into why very shortly but, for now, let’s just...
View Article‘The Asylum:’ New Book Uncovers the Dark Side of the New York Merc
Originally published on CNBC.com on Feb. 15, 2011 “It’s the side of Wall Street Wall Street doesn’t want you to see,” one high-level banker warned me before I ventured down the rabbit hole that would...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to $100 Oil, It’s Every Man for Himself
Originally published on abcnews.go.com on Feb. 24, 2011 Energy Trading Is Rife with Loopholes for Some but Not All Oil topped $100 a barrel for the first time Wednesday since 2008, the same year that...
View ArticleKilling Your Own: The Truth About Oil Speculators
Originally published on huffingtonpost.com on Mar. 14, 2011 In the mid-1990s, the U.S. Marine Corps sent more than a dozen generals, colonels and other high-ranking officers to the trading floor of the...
View ArticleThe Global Oil Casino Benefits Only Its Players
Originally published in The Financial Times on April 6th, 2011 Tensions in the Middle East and north Africa, we are told, lie behind the recent increase in global fuel prices, which Wednesday hit a 2...
View ArticleTrader Threatens To ‘Kill’ 47 U.S. Officials
‘I was being sued…it upset me.’ A midlife crisis can take many forms. Cheating on your spouse. Purchasing a Maserati. Wearing Billabong. Buying into The Lynx Effect. Just being a jerk. But putting up...
View ArticleHow To Make Someone Else Swallow Your Losses, The Mastercourse
It’s official: when a Wall Street powerhouse suddenly collapses and (possibly) more than a billion dollars goes missing, it’s no longer just the ordinary taxpayer’s problem. Now, it has moved up the...
View ArticleQ&A With The Global Journal: Oil Trading And The Casino Syndrome
Happy National Pancake/Leap Year/Week before Super Tuesday Day, all. It has been a turbulent past few months and not just in the oil market. I will get into why very shortly but, for now, let’s just...
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