Sovereign Wealth Funds

Darfur Crisis Offers Arab League a Chance to Shine

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Darfur, Arab League, Marc Kielburger, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Craig Kielburger, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Humanitarian Intervention, Home News

To say the League of Arab States hasn't had the best relations with the United States would be an understatement. The 22-member organization is as o...

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More About Speculation and Manipulation In Oil Trading

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Wall Street Journal, Marc Rich, International Energy Agency, Cftc, Rotterdam, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

It is good news that the CFTC is awakening from its reverie and beginning to deal with the core issues of oil trading. But it is still too much of a hit/miss operation with a degree of insouciance.

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High Oil Prices: Is That The 800 Pound Russian Bear Dancing In The Trading Pits

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Cia, Cftc, Gazprom, Congress, United States, Alex Miller, Putin, Russia Oil, President Medvedev, Medvedev Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The price of oil has done for Russia what the cold war Kremlin was unable to achieve with all its missiles, tanks and mind numbing divisions of men and armor.

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Questions Energy Secretary Bodman Need Ask At This Weekend's Summit In Saudi Arabia

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: New York Times, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Opec, Saudi Aramco, Odman, Chakib Kheklil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Why are oil prices at levels that nobody seems to be able to explain, levels that seriously and negatively impact the world economy, especially those of developing countries?

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Hugo Chavez's Very Excellent Windfall Oil Profit Tax

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Petroleos De Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Opec, Commodity Trading, Venezuela, Adam Smith, Windfall Profits, Oil, Windfall Profits Tax, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Hugo Chavez is not a friend of ours, but he does come up with some good ideas, since we are dealing with a commodity that has left all ballast of free market determination far behind.

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Victory in Iraq! Oil Over $100 Barrel and 35 International Oil Companies Vying To Bid On Iraqi Oil Projects

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Sovereign Wealth Funds, Sen. Carl Levin, VP Cheney, Halliburton, Katrina, Iraq, Presidernt Bush, Opec, Iraq Oil Production, Wehrmacht, Oil Industry, Big Oil, Oil, Oil Prices, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Only three years ago even OPEC was talking with embarrassment about oil prices exceeding $50 a barrel as our descent into the hell of Iraq continued unabated.

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A Potential Vice-Presidential Candidate Struggles with Legislative Dealmaking

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Representative Nita Lowey, Senate Finance Committee, World Bank, Senator Menendez, Senator Patrick Leahy, Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Immunity, Authorization Committees, Budget of President Bush, Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Barack Obama, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, Gao, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Specter, Appropriations Subcommittees, House Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Indiana, Presidential Primary, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

Senator Evan Bayh is on the short-list of vice-presidential candidates for both Obama and Clinton -- so his effectiveness as the potential president of the Senate is a matter of some importance.

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The New Evil Empire: Sovereign Wealth Funds

John Harrington | Posted 03.06.2008 | Business

Read More: State-Owned Enterprises, National Reserves, Global Economy, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Global Markets, Public Pension Funds, Business News
John Harrington

Sovereign Wealth Funds provide just the right blend of passive capital to enable large corporate oligopolies to dominate markets, so that this elite wealthy class of corporate mangers can continue to manipulate the global economy.

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Fund Critics Need a Lesson in Transparency

Daniel Keeler | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Us Debt to China, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Credit Crunch, International Monetary Fund, Business News
Daniel Keeler

Sovereign wealth fund critics should practice what they preach.

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The Trade That Brought Us $100/bbl Oil Teaches Us to Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

Read More: NY Mercantile Exchange, Margin Requirements, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Oil Futures Trading, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

If a single trader with only $6750 can move the market, how can you expect those with billions at their disposal not to do the same as well?

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SEC Chairman Cox Highlights Rise of Sovereign Funds

Sunil Chacko | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Christopher Cox, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Securities and Exchange Comission, Sec, Hedge Funds, Securities Trading, Business News
Sunil Chacko

Today, the world's sovereign wealth funds are significantly larger than all of the world's hedge funds combined.

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Sovereign Wealth Funds And The Price Of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.01.2007 | Business

Read More: Russia, Group of Seven, Sovereign Wealth Funds, SEC Chairman Cox, Uae, Crude Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Oil Prices, Oil Money, Countries Rich in Oil, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The rise of sovereign-wealth funds and the trillions of dollars accumulated by Asian exporters and petroleum producers is prompting growing anxieties around the world.

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Energy Trading Oversight Awakens from its Slumber with Anticipated BP Settlement

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.25.2007 | Business

Read More: Washington Post, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Bp, Senator Levin, Wsj, Eu, Cftc, Commodity Trading, Wall Street Journal, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

I have long contented that oil prices are being manipulated higher by oil interests and their allies. Now comes a sweeping validation of these contentions.

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