Tony Curzon-Price

Wishful thinking at the Economist

Tony Curzon Price on oil price speculators

issue 21 June 2008

In 1990, the former Wall Street trader Jim Rogers (interviewed here by Jonathan Davis, 15 March) set off to circumscribe the globe astride a large motorcycle. He returned in 1992 having pondered the meaning of life — and the answer was ‘commodities’. As a player of markets, he did not have to do anything so practical as to go out and drill or mine.

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