Oil Tankers: Short on Supply, Long on Profits

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One of the lessons of recent market action is that you generally want to own companies in industries where supply is tight and sell companies in industries where supply is plentiful. That may sound elemental, but it provides a pretty square framework for making decisions about investment capital allocation. ...