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@tasket That's a hypothesis all right, but it ignores the pricing of oil as a fungible commodity and how the pain of rising fuel prices is torching Trump's support in flyover country.

Sure, there are lots of great insider trading opportunities at every juncture in this farce. But it's been pretty obvious that every momentous decision coming from the White House and Pentagon has been made without any future scenario assessment.

In other words, shooting off their mouths and making shit up on the fly is costing them dearly. Whether that extends to wiping out the dollar gains made by a small group of cronies might just depend on some zealous federal prosecutors in the next few years.