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To: TobagoJack who wrote (154155)	3/10/2020 5:39:44 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218540

unintended consequence of sanctions maybe? This was an own goal, tRumps signature move

To: TobagoJack who wrote (154155)	3/10/2020 9:51:50 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 218540

Worth noting that the driver of the market... is the stubborn American insistence on the application of "free market principle"... when there isn't a free market. Trump could end the BS by imposing a tariff on foreign oil... even while setting the tariff at a low enough price that doesn't really matter in the market... All it would have to accomplish... is to declare that we're tired of the BS manipulations... and will set a tariff below the market price... so it has no real impact unless prices are jacked below the costs of production... which would obviate and prevent the manipulations. Do that, and POOF... we get stable oil prices... and the driver of war in the Middle East evaporates... because we refuse to subsidize the drivers of price manipulation, and thus the war over control of distribution. Other impacts... flow from not enabling the ability to impose punishments using "out of the money" price manipulations... So, you have to give up on putting Russia out of the oil business by holding prices below their cost of production... which has been a focus of Saudi efforts, too... as the wars in Iraq and Syria have played out... The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have cooperated in that, too... Or, you could accomplish the same things by non-market means... Just tell Russia you're going to nuke them if they don't quit disrupting others right to build pipelines free from Russian interference... But, of course, that's not how the game played... until it gets serious. I'd rather make the game irrelevant... using REAL market principles...