David Bird, Missing Wall Street Journal Reporter, Foresaw an Oil Crash
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 29, 2014David Bird, Missing Wall Street Journal Reporter, Enjoyed Walking and Running. |
On the cold, wintry afternoon of January 11, 2014, David Bird, a reporter who covered energy markets for the Wall Street Journal, told his wife he was going out for a walk and left his home in Long Hill, New Jersey in a red jacket with yellow zippers. Despite his colorful attire, the involvement of hundreds of volunteers, law enforcement officials, and the FBI in the search, Bird has vanished without a trace.
As Wall Street On Parade previously reported in January, for the three months prior to his disappearance, Bird was reporting on a supply glut and growing stockpiles of oil. A newly retrieved article by Bird that appeared on line at the Wall Street Journal on August 21, 2013, shows the reporter had also presciently made an early connection between the Federal Reserve ending its massive bond-buying program known as “quantitative easing” and a potential crash in the price of oil – a crash that has now cut the price of oil almost in half in the past six months.
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