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    Wall Street is very assured, as are the Business Plot class. It’s the regular people who are rightfully skittish.

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    stand in contrast to President Donald Trump’s ability to move markets throughout his first term and into his second.

    This makes it sound like Trump otherwise had a uniquely good effect on markets. But his “good times” look the same as the market has looked back to the 90s except during Dubya’s term when the markets were very “meh” the whole time before crashing out.

    Now he’s done perhaps even worse than dubya…

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    You have to really be amazed that he still has any supporters.

    Markets crashing, everything getting much more expensive, concerns about upcoming crops, bombing Iran for no fucking reason…

    Promises made, promises kept?

    Who even fucking believes such nonsense? I swear, if un-American internal Tokyo Rose outlets like Faux “News” and hate radio didn’t exist, that support would be more like 5-10%. Without a constant onslaught of propaganda, there is no way you could sustain such absurd beliefs.

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    The market tanked last week and this is the first article I have seen where it used an adjetive to describe it even though previously one percet drops would have headlines like the sky is falling. This is enough of a plunge where the rich folks are starting to notice.

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        If I had a choice? I’d rather they fleece betting sites then the stock market since the latter could have a knock on effect on me and mine.

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          Yes and no. Yes, I’d rather have them fleece similarly rotten gamblers. No, I don’t like them making terrible decisions intentionally, because those will always be the most profitable bets.

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    This just in: 6 time bankrupted felon can’t manage economy. More at 10!

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    Oil hits $100 a barrel

    I read the headline and thought, "oh damn, is the price going down?”

    I thought it passed $110 when Trump started the war with Iran.

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      There’s more than one oil price:

      Oil prices also rose sharply, with U.S. crude topping $100 a barrel and global Brent crude at approximately $114 at around 4 p.m. ET.

      Brent crude went above $100 early, but US crude just got there.

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        Where can I find a list of all of these prices (ideally charts) on one page, with links to a description of how a specific market’s price is determined?

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    Back when I was in college, it was the first gulf war and oil was around $20 a barrel.

    One of my professors was talking about shale oil and how the US has phenomenal shale oil resources but it’s not profitable at anything less than $125 a barrel “and if oil is $125 a barrel we’re all screwed anyway!”

    Well…

    https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart

    (North Dakota made SO much money!)

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    This happened because Trump’s delay on global economy mutual assured destruction was vetoed by Israel. Trump cheered it on, as Israel said US coordinated with them. No media questions about “Israel’s veto” were ever asked despite him making appearances with questions.