原帖由 revolver 于 2008-5-23 12:19 发表 I feel you may have been too much focusing on industy level analysis. You may have done some detail study and read a lot of report/data on oil industry and drawn your conclusion from there. ...
You raised a very interesting and challenging question. I would like to discuss more simply for intellectual fun.
If this is a currency bubble, then there must exist some method to measure how much the currency is inflated. I’ll propose a couple. More are welcome.
Certainly it’s not feasible to measure it by oil price. Because this will create a logic loop as we want to use this to justify oil price. Likewise, gold price, agriculture price are not feasible, either.
As oil is priced in dollar, using another currency is an option. Dollar dropped 15% versus Euro year over year, far less than the 100%+ increase on oil price.
Besides exchange rate, purchasing power is another option. Official inflation rate is merely 4% year over year, even smaller.
According to Fed’s money supply data, M1 actually decreased year over year, M2 increased 6% year over year, still cannot match the 100%+ gain.
I think one shouldn’t worry too much about more currency circulating around the world, if inflation is in check. The function of currency is trading. As long as real GDP grows, there will be more trading, and more trading asks for more currency.
Nonetheless, I admit that $60 may not be reached when considering inflation.
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