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Word: roeber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal beneficiaries of the galloping oil price increases that occur daily on the "spot market." They are the mysterious players in a loose old-boy network of private investors, former oil executives, foreign government officials, Arab sheiks and assorted middlemen, brokers and hustlers. "Many of them," says Joe Roeber, a London-based analyst of the spot market, "got out of trading used tires or razor blades or whatever else they were doing to start dealing in oil." Adds Roeber: "There is very little morality in this business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Hustling Price Gougers | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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