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Professor David Victor is quoted in a Baltimore Sun story about the changing world financial markets:
"The windfall of oil profits and our dependence on oil is a major and serious problem," said David Victor, director of the energy program at Stanford University's Spogli Institute for International Studies.
With oil bringing in unexpected cash, "there's more on the table, more at stake, and therefore there's a stronger incentive for people to try to tilt the rules in their favor," said Victor. "Heightened oil prices probably intensify the odds of conflict."