Oil Price Spike: Was it Bernanke, the Arab Spring or Something else?

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:37 EDT - The Curious Capitalist

The Federal Reserve's $600 billion bond buying program ends at the end of this month. The program, which was the second round of quantitative easing for the central bank and has become known as QE2, has been controversial. So you are likely to read a lot of commentary over the next week or two about [...]

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