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February 28, 2012

Is the Fed's "Easy Money" Boosting Gas Prices?

Mike Whitney, CounterPunch


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Is the Fed’s “Easy Money” policy pushing up the price of gas? The editors of the Wall Street Journal seem to think so. Here’s how they summed it up in an article last week. . .

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