@article{441345,
      recid = {441345},
      author = {Dicker, Dan,},
      title = {Oil's endless bid: taming the unreliable price of oil to  secure our economy /},
      publisher = {John Wiley & Sons,},
      address = {Hoboken, N.J. :},
      pages = {xiv, 338 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"Expert analysis of rising oil prices and the  out-of-control oil markets that jeopardize both national  security and the economy. The price of oil is negatively  impacting both companies and consumers. In Oil's Endless  Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Energy to Secure Our  Economy, energy analyst Dan Dicker recalls his experiences  as an oil trader and reveals the changes that have taken  place in the oil markets during the past twenty years, and  particularly the last five, as investment banks, energy  hedge funds, and managed futures funds have come to  dominate energy trading and wreak havoc on prices. Reveals  why oil prices cannot stabilize without dramatic action on  the part of both government and business. Details how the  novel, but wrong, idea of oil as an asset class took a  sleepy, club-like market into the national spotlight.  Describes how the United States is unnecessarily handing  its wealth over to foreign oil producers during a time when  the potential supply of oil is greater than ever. Written  by an industry insider, Oil's Endless Bid analyzes the  biggest financial story of the last ten years, how we lost  control of our oil markets"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/441345},
}