Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs for BusinessWeek. He previously was correspondent for Central Asia and the Caucasus for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for 11 years. His first book, The Oil and the Glory, a history of the former Soviet Union through the lens of oil, was published in October 2007. Putin’s Labyrinth, his new book, profiles Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians. It was released this week.
If Steve LeVine's aim … was to chill us to the marrow about post-Communist Russia, he has succeeded.
LeVine's reconstruction of a savagely botched anti-terrorist operation at a Moscow theatre is particularly effective.
With fresh insights into the Chechen wars and Putin’s post-presidency plans, LeVine’s important take on the all-too-real machinations and bloodthirstiness from which espionage thrillers are made is both unnerving and intriguing.
Donna Seaman, Booklist
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2 Comments:
Steve:
Sorry, this is not related to the book notes. My question is about the price of oil in 2008. Pundits are saying anything from $50 to $150 a barrel is possible. We all know why it could go up. But why would it drop (and drop so low)? Thank you.
The main $50 oil scenario envisions a deep global recession in which demand plummets, thus loosening up demand pressure on the price. A companion scenario is that traders who have bid up the price of sweet crudes shift their billions of dollars to some other investment vehicle, thus taking some air out of the oil bubble. Adherents of the latter scenario think traders have built in $20 of air or more into the price of a barrel of oil.
Thanks for the comment and best, Steve
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