Oil Drilling: It All Makes Sense Now.

Explore the financial speculators impacts on commodity markets and how oil prices are influenced.

2008-08-21T18:12:31 | 1 min read

Yesterday, I wrote about financial speculators and their impacts on commodity markets, focusing on oil. Here, Stephen Colbert and Stephen Colbert play three-card Monte to explain what's going on:

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