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Deminpenn

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18. Last year, Chris Hayes interviewed

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 23, 2025, 01:47 PM

Dec 2025

either an oil trader or oil trader expert. Anyway, this expert explained that when Biden released oil from the US strategic reserve when oil prices were persistently high and rising, it sent the message the US was willing to make future strategic reserve releases. This expert said Biden effectively broke the oil pricing fever. Even now, the oil market has stayed surprisingly stable.

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They're cooking the economic books to please Trump [View all] indusurb Dec 2025 OP

Wall Street is ignoring this news today Johonny Dec 2025 #1

True, but Wall Street has become less and less connected to the real economy for the past thirty years indusurb Dec 2025 #2

No way in hell was GDP at 4.3% gab13by13 Dec 2025 #3

Last year, Chris Hayes interviewed Deminpenn Dec 2025 #18

It Was Only 4.3%... ProfessorGAC Dec 2025 #23

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