Reduced Liquidity May Actually Raise Prices

Reducing market participation will not impact the fundamentals of supply and demand

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Phil: Total political BS. You know as well as I that margin increases are only goin to hurt true price discovery. The index funds have more money than they know what to do with...margin increases are not going to force them out of the market. On the other hand, position limits MIGHT help a little. Global oil market prices can not be contolled by the US government.... nor should they try. If the FED did not manipulate the dollar in the first place...oil price would be somewhat firm. The US government always blames the market place for there woes. I am so sick of US government intervention of markets. They caused the crash of 1929. If the FED was abolished...then true price discovery would occur. This only hurts the small speculator....and this is where true price discovery begins.

Stacy Dale Barendse of MI 10:26PM April 20, 2012

Google the "$2.5 Trillion Oil Scam - slideshare." Purchase electric cars and solar panels. The price of oil and gasoline is determined by those who manipulate and control the crude oil futures markets, namely, the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), ICE Futures Europe and the NYMEX, and the price of oil is not decided by Obama, OPEC, Saudi Aramco,Inc. and the laws of supply and demand.

Earl Richards 2:59PM April 20, 2012