Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy

Chapter 1: A Brief Look Back at the Good Old Days of Oil Trading.

Part I: Oil's Endless Bid: What Caused It?

Chapter 2: The Assetization of Oil, Part 1: Commodities Aren't Stocks.

Chapter 3: The Assetization of Oil, Part 2: The Problem with Commodity Indexes and the Exchange-Traded Funds.

Chapter 4: The Rise of the Investment Banks and Their Financial Finagling.

Chapter 5: Increased Access to Trading Oil: The Trading Floor Goes Online.

Part II: The Destruction of Reliable Fundamental Pricing of Oil.

Chapter 6: Why Oil Traders Don't Care about the Price of Oil--or the Value of the Dollar.

Chapter 7: Oil Traders Couldn't Care Less about Peak Oil.

Chapter 8: Alternative Sources of Oil—and Why Investors Should Care.

Chapter 9: Proof of Oil's Endless Bid: Crack Spreads.

Chapter 10: The Fuel that the Endless Bid Forgot: Natural Gas.

Part III: Where Are We Headed?

Chapter 11: What Needs to Be Done.

Epilogue: Oil's Endless Bid Appears in the Gulf of Mexico.

Appendices.

Appendix A: A Brief Review of the History of Futures.

Appendix B: An Extreme Example of Intervention in the Futures Market: How 3 Dallas Oil Tycoons Tried to Corner the Silver Market.

Index.