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Oil Price Increases Are Irrelevant to the Recovery

With oil above $100 a barrel, and gas nearing $4 a gallon, doomsayers wrongly predict the end of the recovery. Zachary Karabell on how the economy no longer lives and dies with energy.

Zachary Karabell
Zachary Karabell
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Gasoline prices are shown at a gas station in Del Mar, California on Mar. 9, 2011. (Photo: Mike Blake, Reuters / Landov)
Zachary Karabell

Zachary Karabell

zkarabell@rivertwice.com

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