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Oil prices
- RobVG -
12/23/2015 7:06:39 PM
Looks like ER could be right again.
- RobVG -
1/12/2016 5:54:07 PM
The laws of economics are as real as the laws of physics. No one denies that.
- ER -
1/12/2016 8:12:06 PM
As of October...
- RobVG -
12/29/2015 12:00:29 AM
No problem! We ran out of cash decades ago.
- ER -
12/29/2015 1:40:20 AM
I'm starting to feel like a soapbox. n/t
- RobVG -
12/29/2015 2:44:37 AM
You just now noticed that?
- TB -
12/30/2015 12:48:02 AM
More information:
- TB -
12/24/2015 1:55:48 AM
So Saudi Arabia is giving away lemonade for free,
- ER -
12/24/2015 3:19:00 AM
Also, I hope the article's author calmed himself after all that hyperventilating
- mcfly -
12/24/2015 5:54:09 AM
Re-read the second article you linked below. "Nimble."
- TB -
12/24/2015 6:53:02 AM
Hey, I'm just saying, Blue Skies have a way of clouding over
- mcfly -
12/24/2015 8:01:17 AM
Not so invisible
- ER -
12/23/2015 8:13:29 PM
I'm not so sure.
- RobVG -
12/28/2015 5:12:00 PM
So what are you trying to tell me?
- ER -
12/28/2015 6:31:20 PM
All I'm trying to say is the price of oil is the result of supply and demand.
- RobVG -
12/28/2015 7:33:23 PM
The price of oil is dependent on the perception of supply, demand and making a buck on the futures market.
- Tony -
1/12/2016 6:53:21 PM
What I don't get is....
- RobVG -
1/13/2016 3:37:25 AM
Two things drive markets.
- ER -
1/13/2016 6:03:15 AM
Tell me why Conservatives so love monopolies?
- bowser -
12/29/2015 2:08:00 AM
Show me where the monopoly is.
- RobVG -
12/29/2015 5:09:56 AM
Let's be reasonable, without the cheap shots.
- bowser -
12/29/2015 6:55:26 AM
Sure, though supply and demand can be manipulated
- Robert -
12/28/2015 11:01:07 PM
Of course Supply and Demand works.
- ER -
12/28/2015 8:49:15 PM
...and more of a fist
- mcfly -
12/23/2015 11:17:18 PM
The free market.
- ER -
12/24/2015 12:38:24 AM
*Sniff*, that's beautiful man.....
- RobVG -
12/24/2015 3:39:19 AM
You DO realize I'm just pressing your buttons, right? :-)
- ER -
12/24/2015 4:09:21 AM
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