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The Geopolitical Shifts Shaping the Economy, Feat. Demetri Kofinas

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Is the Fed Really Trying to Tighten Oil Prices?

The last time inflation was at above nine ercent was 19 81, and the last time they raised rates by a full % was 19 81. The oil bulls focus very much on the supply side story, and with good reason, because there's only so much that the fed can do to impact the price of oil,. absent inducing a massive recession. But you have to be realistic about what they can actually do. Qualitatively speaking, if oil prices start to trend upwards again, how much will the fed continue to tighten in the face of that? I mean, at some point policyis going to have to change. And i don't believe in a long term deflation. We're going to

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