This program is about an hour here we are with the secret world of oil, your new book on the oil business. Im going to ask the first question that you are sick of answering. Why did you decide to write this book lacks guest well, ive written about the oil industry for a long time, for over a decade. And ive written about the corruption of the oil industry and the way the United States maintains Close Relationships with various unattractive regimes and the basis of the relationship so for example when i was at the Los Angeles Times back in 2002 thats when i first started writing about it and if the Equatorial Guinea which is a small west african country, nobody knew about it or cared about it. It was a pariah state, terrible dictatorship and dirt poor. And then in the mid1990s, exxon found a lot of oil and other American Companies poured in and suddenly the relationship changed and it was no longer a pariah. They had a friendly relationship because it was a little too embarrassing but t
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Here we are with the secret world of oil. On the seamy injured underside of the oil business. And the question youre probably sick of answering, why did you write this book . Ive written been the oil industry for a long time. Ive written for over a decade. And ive written about the corruption of the International Oil industry, and the way the United States maintains Close Relationships with various pretty unattractive regimes and the basis legalizationship is oil. When i was at the Los Angeles Times in 2002, when first start writing about the topic. I wrote about the obion family of in new guinea. Nobody knew about it or cared about it. A pariah state. Terrible dictatorship, and dirt poor. And then in the mid1990s, exxon found a lot of oil off the coast of Equatorial Guinea and other American Companies poured in, and suddenly thisship changed. It was no longer a poo rye ya and thats there was this close, still on a friendly relationship because its embarrassing but a reapproachment and
I just dont care about this particular child. We are not forcing you to care. Top of the hour, stock every 15 minutes. Nicole petallides has the update. Reporter that is right, we are seeing the Dow Jones Industrial right now back into positive territory after some weakening home sales. Another thing we should note here is that the dollar has been weakening after moderately particularly high goals. That is something that we are focusing on as well. You are seeing gold jumping significantly, up about 34 points, it is also a very big deal. Lots watching the markets right now, they include microsoft and american express. Dont forget about detroit today he will work carefully but quickly. Im trying to get this done between 2014 and that is a little bit more than a year. It is a little bit more than here, but we now have a judge and the judge will have his own ideas about how the show. Dagen we have to two guests with us. Stephen, to you as well. The pension, the union, and the Municipal Bo
Welcome to todays Worldwide Exchange. Im kelly evans and these are your headlines from around the world. Its decision day in europe. The ecb expected to hold off on further easing as the stalemate in italy continues. But its forecast could move markets. And will the bank of england launch fresh rounds of quantitative easing . Economists are split on what the decision could be. And no added stimulus in the bank of japan this time around, but investors expect more action next month. Plus, discussing the deficit over dinner. President obama is dining with several key lawmakers in washington last night. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Welcome to todays edition of Worldwide Exchange. Its decision day, as we said, Across Europe. Both the European Central bank and the bank of japan will meet for their decisions this afternoon. This whole week has been pretty busy. Sadly, im here on my own this morning. Ross westgate is headed to italy where