James R. Norman

Jim Norman is a veteran business journalist and energy reporter. He is currently a contributing writer for McGraw-Hill's Platts Oilgram News, where he was a senior writer for 10 years before retiring in mid-2007. At Platts, Norman has been noted for his coverage of oil industry finance, economics, deal-making and chicanery. His "prophetic press reports," as early as 1998, were cited by Paul Volcker's UN Independent Inquiry Committee for laying bare the likelihood of kickbacks and money laundering involving the Iraq Oil-For-Food program. His critical analysis of Enron accounting and governance in mid-2001 helped trigger the SEC investigation which led to Enron's downfall.

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  • The Drug War

    Columnist for the Independent in London for nine years and twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK, Johann Hari, discussed his epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey looking into the 100-year-old war on drugs. First hour guest,...More »
  • Oil Issues/ Hollywood Medium

    In the first half, longtime business and energy journalist, James R. Norman, discussed how the US and its allies use the price of oil as an economic weapon. We're really involved in a global economic war-- particularly the US against China, he stated. In the latter half,...More »
  • China, Oil, & Economic Warfare

    Journalist James R. Norman argued that the U.S. and its allies use the price of oil as an economic weapon. The oil economic war against the Soviet Union worked so well in the 1980s, that this strategy is now being employed against "our other big geopolitical enemy," China, which...More »
  • Economic Warfare

    In the first half of the show, business and energy journalist, James R. Norman discussed the geopolitical maneuvering of various countries as they engage in what he calls economic warfare. Third hour guest, financial analyst Joseph Meyer offered forecasts on the economy.More »
  • Oil as Economic Warfare

    Energy journalist Jim Norman argued that the United States manipulates the price of oil as a kind of economic weapon. Appearing in the last hour, geologist Jim Berkland commented on the recent swarm of quakes at Yellowstone.More »