2006-09-08 20:45:14 · 2 answers · asked by Faerieeeiren 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
I can remember the purposely created sugar shortage when we had a surplus which raised the prices of sugar from very little to a great deal as a child and it never went down. Also vitamins were found to have been done and in the 80's they began capping full producing Oil wells in Texas to increase prices and just did it up in Alaska recently. They also do this with diamonds to keep prices up. I read that the new synthesized diamonds are better quality than mined diamonds and next to impossible to tell apart because they are matched chemically just often better because they lack impurities. Too perfect
2006-09-08 20:48:40 · update #1
Uhhh, oil. You can't tell me that the increase in the price of oil is caused by the war in the gulf region OR Katrina... not when each of the major oil companies posted record profits over the last two years. That really shows me how tough all this war and distaster stuff was on them...
2006-09-08 20:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by Christopher B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OPEC and the Federal Reserve.
2006-09-08 20:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋