More on the Price of Oil

Our post yesterday on the odd correlation between the price of oil and the American Presidential election has drawn a lot of reader email, much of it very informative. This contribution came from a reader who works as an analyst of the oil and gas industry, based in Russia:

Could speculators, particularly George Soros, have recently driven the price of oil far above what fundamentals would dictate for political reasons?

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