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  • The Coming Oil Price Shock

    05/09/2010 1:18:29 PM PDT · by blam · 36 replies · 1,603+ views
    The Market Oracle ^ | 5-8-2010 | Andrew McKillop
    The Coming Oil Price Shock Commodities / Crude Oil May 08, 2010 - 05:20 PM By: Andrew McKillop Fatal Difference - Fatal Indifference - We need only to recap the experience of the 1970s and 1980s to understand why massive public national deficit financing of Keynesian-type spending to restore global economic growth will almost surely end with a 1970s style oil shock. That is oil price explosion, falling consumer confidence and corporate investment, falling economic growth, finance sector panic, competitive devaluation of world moneys and a catastrophic slump back into recession. Like the 1970s experience, the recession will be very...