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It's Coming: $65 Oil {Good News / Bad News}
The Atlantic ^ | OCT 28 2014 | DEREK THOMPSON

Posted on 10/30/2014 4:47:37 AM PDT by thackney

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1 posted on 10/30/2014 4:47:37 AM PDT by thackney
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It is only because elections are coming up and someone was told to drop the price. Prices WILL rise after the electiions. Give a month after the elections.
2 posted on 10/30/2014 4:58:52 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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someone was told to drop the price

Yeah, that's the ticket. Magic control of the world's commodity markets. All they had to do was ask. < /sarc>

3 posted on 10/30/2014 5:00:12 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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“Prices WILL rise after the elections.”

Only ignorant “O” supporters would fail to recognize this.


4 posted on 10/30/2014 5:00:47 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Seriously? Look at the production increases in the USA and Canada. That says it all.


5 posted on 10/30/2014 5:02:33 AM PDT by hawkaw
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Finally! now I can afford to eat at McDonalds seven times a week!!!


6 posted on 10/30/2014 5:03:05 AM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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Looks like an election year pattern to me...


7 posted on 10/30/2014 5:03:59 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Finally! now I can afford to eat at McDonalds seven times a week!!!

And use the drive-through!! (/s)

8 posted on 10/30/2014 5:06:02 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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with 2.50 gas, maybe braindead obama supporters will finally stop calling 911 every time their burger meals are screwed up.


9 posted on 10/30/2014 5:07:31 AM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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It is only because elections are coming up and someone was told to drop the price

Bingo. Bingo, Bingo.

10 posted on 10/30/2014 5:07:33 AM PDT by Vinnie
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It’s a DEPRESSION, world-wide in scope, and nobody will call it for what it is.

In a normal boom-or-bust cycle of the whole world of economics, the bust, which evaporates all the excess medium of exchange from the trading markets, leads to more sound fiscal thinking, and despite the promises of Keynesian economics (which call for PUMPING UP the money supply), the reduced money in circulation should lead to a more solid basis of assigning worth to each unit of currency. People have less, of course, but this is balanced by the low and falling commodity prices, and generally the new equilibrium restores the ratios between income and outgo.

Thus resetting the growth patterns back to “normal”, establishing a new era of general prosperity.

Until some runaway notion or fad again bids up prices in an artificially induced scarcity, leading to a more and more false prosperity.

Dropping of petroleum prices at the end of the Bush 43 Presidency did nothing to preserve the White House for the Republicans, or even win back anything in either the House or Senate.

Debt, both internal and international between nations, is the driving factor for this explosion of confidence, as the debt load becomes too onerous to be supported by the various separate economies, and the house of (credit) cards comes tumbling down.


11 posted on 10/30/2014 5:15:49 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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That’s good news. The bad news is that it has to go for my Health insurance increase....thanks to Obamacare.


12 posted on 10/30/2014 5:18:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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They’ll drop until about mid-December.


13 posted on 10/30/2014 5:19:52 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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14 posted on 10/30/2014 5:20:55 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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$2.73/gallon in Lakewood, WA!


15 posted on 10/30/2014 5:21:58 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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I paid $2.63 in Pasadena, Texas this morning.


16 posted on 10/30/2014 5:22:47 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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does this mean the cost of a call girl will also drop 30%?


17 posted on 10/30/2014 5:23:13 AM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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Saw a couple stations on a remote part of I-5 in central CA yesterday. $4.39 to $4.59/gal. Didn’t stop to see if they were wearing guns.


18 posted on 10/30/2014 5:28:35 AM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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Gas will be $2.50, but the burger will be $19.95


19 posted on 10/30/2014 5:30:13 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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$2.70/9 for 87 oxy in mid Missouri.
$.50 spread for 93 straight premium !
20 posted on 10/30/2014 5:31:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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