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Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy explains the real reason behind today's outrageous gas prices by exposing the Mideast oil cartel and revealing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets-and, consequently, threatens the world's economy and American security. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Over a Barrel, explains OPEC from the bottom up: its history of extortions, manipulations, broken promises and cynical opportunism. Learsy reveals how OPEC manufactures illusions of oil scarcity to inflate prices and gain political power. Perhaps more frightening, OPEC's members funnel their profits to dangerous anti-American and Islamist movements across the globe, in effect using dollars from our own wallets to fund jihad. And yet OPEC remains the de facto controller of the oil fields our American soldiers have fought to liberate in Iraq. A sharp, sweeping survey of OPEC's methods of economic dominance, Over a Barrel is at once a stern warning on where we are headed and a practical guide to busting the Mideast oil cartel and charting our course toward energy independence.
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About the Author:
Raymond J. Learsy made his life in the fast-paced, risk filled world of commodities trading beginning in 1959. In 1963, he started his own firm and over twenty years expanded it internationally. In the 1980s, he shifted gears to become a private investor and high-end art collector. He is a member of the Wilson Council at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Learsy's richly informed analysis of the international oil trade, OPEC, and its impact on the American and world economy has been featured in National Review Online and the New York Times. He currently resides in Connecticut. He currently blogs for the Huffington Post.
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- PublisherGeneral Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1458778088
- ISBN 13 9781458778086
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages446
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