I'm very tired of this.
The latest was the overnight spike in the futures market as a result of Trump's "oh ya man we're gonna have a deal" ****.
That's not the problem -- the problem is the shorts in the oil market placed very shortly before that, which magically were worth roughly a hundred million in profits -- in the middle of the night.
This isn't a one-off either; there have been multiple instances of it in the last couple of months. In fact hardly a week goes by that there isn't another one.
It also raises the obvious question as to whether the entire Iran adventure is in fact a manufactured clown show for the purpose of diverting information to favored people who then get very wealthy while the rest of us take it up at the**** at the gas pump, many people die particularly in Iran (does that make it "murder for money"?) and, by the way, beyond the rather-likely energy cost-driven recession that is now basically baked into the cake there's a decent shot at a pan-Asian or European (or both) famine coming out of this due to the urea cutoff during it when fertilizer must go on the ground for crops.
