The Economy - What went wrong & What’s next?

See also Wednesday Nights 1375 ; 1376 and 1378 Did speculators use unregulated markets to drive up oil prices? (McClatchy) Federal regulators have uncovered evidence that oil speculators operating in unregulated “dark markets” may have helped drive the price of crude oil to record highs this year, McClatchy has learned. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to issue a long-awaited report before Monday, perhaps as early as Thursday, on what role oil speculators played in the 50 percent rise in oil prices earlier this year. 10 September (FT) Medvedev fails to halt Russian market slide September 7 U.S.