Title: Oil and finance
Description: Offers a chronological and critical perspective on the power wielded by Big Oil and Wall Street. According to this compilation of Learsy's writings for the Huffington Post over a five-year period, the nation's economic health is essentially controlled by the petroleum and financial industries. Learsy's searing criticism of these companies goes so far as to suggest that they, in collusion with the federal government, essentially created the country's recent financial meltdown.
Subjects: Investment banking, Government policy, Petroleum products, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Corrupt practices, Petroleum industry and trade, Financial services industry, Prices, Recessions, Economic policy, Financial crises, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, Economic aspects, Political aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 2009-