Bernie Sanders Leaks Names of Oil Speculators in 2008 Price Run Up
Bernie leaked names (incl Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation’s largest producers of natural gas; Cascade Investment, the investment arm for Bill Gates; Goldman Sachs, unsurprisingly the biggest speculator; Morgan Stanley; Yale University; Singapore; hedge funds Brevan Howard and D.E. Shaw & Co.; pension funds for Texas teachers and Danish workers) to the Wall Street Journal and other news orgs. “The CFTC has kept this information hidden from the American public for nearly three years,” Sanders said. “This is an outrage. The American people have a right to know exactly who caused gas prices to skyrocket in 2008 and who is causing them to spike today.” – mab .. read more
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