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Oil Drilling: It All Makes Sense Now.

Aug 21, 2008 6:12 PMNov 5, 2019 10:23 AM

Yesterday, I wrote about financial speculators and their impacts on commodity markets, focusing on oil. Here, Stephen Colbert and Stephen Colbert play three-card Monte to explain what's going on:

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