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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">Author Middelkoop: Oil Price Decline Represents US 'Economic Warfare'</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">Monday, 26 Jan 2015</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">By Dan Weil</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class=""> The plunge of oil prices to 5 ½-year lows stems partly from U.S. "economic warfare" against its enemies, says financial writer/money manager Willem Middelkoop.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">"The current price can only partially be explained by technical factors like growing U.S. oil production," he tells Russia's state-controlled RT news service. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">"The price declines were also caused by heavy selling in the American futures markets, and you could call that a form of economic warfare."</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">And what warfare is that?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" class="">"It is an all-out economic war between the U.S. and Russia now," Middelkoop, founder of the Commodity Discovery investment Fund, says. "If we see who has more problems [caused] by
current oil, they are Russia, Iran, Venezuela. These countries can be seen as enemies of the U.S."</div>
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