▲ 816 ▼ Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800 million in trades made on oil prices (www.9news.com.au) submitted 5 months ago by Substance_P@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market. 6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures. But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 11 points 5 months ago (2 children) Yeah but these days they're just doing full mask-off extra-corrupt just-pay-me-bitch corruption. Like paying $1bn to the "board of peace" of which Trump is the supreme chairperson eternal ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) I bet that group is working hard around the clock on the Iran problem ... Right ? .... right ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 5 months ago Yeah, I mean it's in the name. When things aren't peaceful this dynamic team of diplomatic masterminds goes to work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago In the interview he was arguing that it shouldn't be illegal. And that we were missing an opportunity... so now that he controls the DOJ, he is just acting like it isn't illegal, because effectively it isn't. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) I bet that group is working hard around the clock on the Iran problem ... Right ? .... right ? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 5 months ago Yeah, I mean it's in the name. When things aren't peaceful this dynamic team of diplomatic masterminds goes to work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 5 months ago Yeah, I mean it's in the name. When things aren't peaceful this dynamic team of diplomatic masterminds goes to work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago In the interview he was arguing that it shouldn't be illegal. And that we were missing an opportunity... so now that he controls the DOJ, he is just acting like it isn't illegal, because effectively it isn't. permalink fedilink source parent