Issue 4269. Last Updated: 11/08/2009

It's All About Oil

By Clifford G. Gaddy
It's great fun to explain a sudden boom or bust in the stock markets after the fact by alluding to some unique event that happened to occur at just that time. Anyone can do it, and no one can refute you, since the experiment cannot be repeated. Normally, it's also an innocent exercise.

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