Crude Volatility
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Crude Volatility
| Full title | Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert McNally |
| Published | 2017 |
| Pages | 315 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | McNally’s history of why oil prices swing the way they do — a century of attempts to suppress the cycle, from Standard Oil through the Texas Railroad Commission to OPEC, and what happens each time the cartel of the moment loses control. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named in the thread answering “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- Oil & Gas — the industry.
- Energy — price as the signal the whole sector runs on.
- Capital Allocation — a boom-bust commodity is the hardest case for investing discipline.
- The World for Sale — the trading side of the same physical business, also named in this thread.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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