The Interactive Television Institute Blasts the Oil Speculators

Jan. 27, 2011 - PRLog -- Admittedly oil speculation is off-topic, but with oil speculators poised to take oil related commodities (including gasoline, natural gas and heating oil) to new economy-harming highs, the institute wanted to put itself on record as highly against this abusive practice. Frustrated consumers may curtail interactive TV related purchases. As a former commodity trader himself, Philip Gurian of The Interactive Television Institute is familiar with oil speculators, as he had the opportunity to be one himself but decided against it.

Consumers should know that:

A) The extra dollars injected into the economy by QE1, QE2 (quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve), and TARP is not mainly causing oil prices to jump. Case-in-point, oil prices in the US hit roughly $145 a barrel in July, 2008 when QE1, QE2 and TARP never even existed.

B) The current and expected further price upswing is mainly fueled by a huge influx of profit-driven trading and investment by hedge, pension and other funds (and others) that typically don’t want to even take delivery of the oil, but instead usually sell it electronically, or in hard copy, like folks sell stocks and bonds.

C) The US financial regulation legislation was quite watered down. The actual rule-making to put teeth behind the legislation has largely been left to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and they have been inundated by representatives of those wanting to speculate and few representing the average Joe and Josephine. Guess who they mainly have sided with.

It's likely that way too many people don’t realize how speculation unnecessarily raises commodity prices and we all suffer badly because of that.

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More information can be found online at http://www.itvinstitute.com

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