FT: Oil bear bets on return to $25 a barrel

The FT reports on a hedgefund manager who has been successful in betting on the recent patterns (spike and bust) of the oil price. The manager reckons a low ($25-$50) oil price for the next two years.

Expect some interesting "Bust" papers coming out over the same period.

A taster from the OxCARRE Blog:

VoxEU: Commodity prices: Over a hundred years of booms and busts (Thursday, April 30, 2015)

Dutch Disease and the Oil and Boom and Bust (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)

New Research: The Economic Aftermath of Resource Booms (Thursday, October 16, 2014)

Commodity booms, busts and bubbles (Thursday, March 28, 2013)

From Boom to Bust: A Typology of Real Commodity Prices in the Long Run (Friday, March 22, 2013)

Commodity Price Booms and Busts: A Primer (Wednesday, December 19, 2012)