Oil price reporting agencies Platts and Argus are under scrutiny over their governance and transparency as part of a G20 investigation into commodity speculation.
Called killing the messenger.
If oil prices are not to a politician\’s liking it must be the people who report the oil prices at fault, eh?
Or the evil speculators, a theory that Mr Krugman is not happy with….
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/speculative-nonsense-once-again/