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morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning it is friday, october 14th. welcome to "american morning." it's a good morning on many levels. >> the tigers won. >> that's what i was going to say. the rangers are one game away from clinching it, and i kept think, well that means the tigers could still win. >> did you see the sixth ining? crazy. a single, a double, a triple and home run in one inning. i don't think that's ever happened in baseball before. the double kareemed off third base. the only reason it turned into a double and that was the turning point. >> there...

Prices are being driven by unregulated oil speculation. last month, goldman sachs told its investors that speculation could account for one-fifth of oil prices. the ceo of exxonmobil rex tillerson testified in congress this month that without speculation, oil would be at $60 or 70 bucks a barrel, not above $100. the secretary-general of opec told "the wall street journal" "the best thing to do to lower oil prices is to curb some speculation and also reduce taxes. just last week, house republican leader eric cantor told speculators in chicago that republicans in congress would do their part to ...

Because of politically savvy companies like koch industry and others. in 2000 they teamed up with enron and wrote the enron loophole for the derivatives. they used tea party allies to try to kill dodd-frank last year. the tea party that ep head elect the koch brothers, they will -- >> how do you argue they are not -- >> we have to leave it there for now. >> that makes no sense, lee. >> lee, thanks. at least we settled everything for now. >> thanks to lee. thanks to our mega panel. tim karny who i will note is very suspicious that lee will be living without fossil fuels. sam, the undisclosed. t...

So in the midst of record high gas prices where are the calls to cut the rhetorical flourishing and sick the cftc on crewsive oil speculation? well we don't hear of many. experts agree, these wild swings in oil prices lately are more drastic than changes in supply and demand. the price is being driven by trading. not producing or consuming. trading. that is the t in cftc. they can and should be doing something about it. now maybe i'm just a hopeless wisconsin progressive who thinks that speculating on the life blood of our economy requires oversight. maybe the democratic and republican politic...