What I don't get is....

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RobVG — 1/13/2016 3:37:25 AM (archived)

You know they have economists. They should have foreseen the glut. Did the short term profits outweigh the impending bankruptcies? Maybe the bigger players were planing on scooping up smaller flailing companies. I don't get it.

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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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