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Immaculate Disinflation

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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Saudi Arabia's Effort to Survive Lower Oil Prices

I was especially surprised by the Saudi move because I feel like lower prices were taking out their competitors to a certain extent. By propping up prices at this sort of $80, $90 level, isn't Saudi Arabia just kind of helping out their competitors? Maybe they don't care. Maybe they're just trying to make a bunch of money right now so they can pivot to messy land and whatever else. But it's clear to me that they're really confident, but they are also spending billions of dollars on poaching soccer players and golfers and building crazy tourist trap cities. So I think MBS is having a grand old time with his money and doesn't really want to stop flowing.

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