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F W Engdahl
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F W Engdahl writes Oil Geopolitics, a personal blog at engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net about politics and economics. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2009, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this site for claims on oil futures, oil prices and the New Deal. One says it has long run alarmist pieces on the dollar's fall.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
[An] economic break even point ... must exist. This, among other things, is driving futures. Regarding oil-futures: http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_... The oil price today, unlike twenty years ago, is determined behind closed doors in the trading rooms of giant financial institutions like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank or UBS. The key exchange in…
Comment linking /Financial_Tsunami/Oil_Speculation_II/oil_speculation_ii.html
on “Eric S. Raymond: Why Alternative Energy Isn’t”a lot of factors ... are placing significant pressure on the CURRENT supply of oil TODAY. You are referring to the surplus supply? How do you figure that surplus supply should push prices up ? http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_... Compelling evidence also suggests that the oft-cited geopolitical, economic, and natural factors do not explain the recent rise in energy prices can be seen in th…
Comment linking /Financial_Tsunami/Oil_Speculation/oil_speculation.HTM
on “Graphical display of VC money disbursed per state”The "New Deal" helped extend the Great Depression for 10 years More on this, here: http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/History/New_Deal/new_d... Why eight years of Roosevelt economic policy produced such disastrous economic recovery results, is the crucial question. The answer appears to be that the group of men who advised the President on economic and social policy during the peace years of the Depression, were…
Comment linking /History/New_Deal/new_deal.html
on “Selflessness vs Selfishness”Panics about how oil is being traded in non-USD terms are as old as the internet and, in all likelihood, even older than that. You can find usenet slop from 20-30 years ago about the petro-euro and the "tehran oil bourse". Here's an old site that is/was daily panics about the fall of the dollar, from 15-25 years ago. http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/
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on “USD Share as Global Reserve Currency Drops to Lowest Since 1994”