Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

These things happen. The California electricity crisis of 2000-2001 was largely caused by market manipulation — withholding supply to drive up prices 2/ https://t.co/MVYaJtlDsM — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2020 Hibernated

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The basic story of negative oil prices is that demand has collapsed. But there may be some market manipulation on top 1/ https://t.co/lkMTPuIe71 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2020 Hibernated

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The hypothesis is that oil is an upside-down version of this story. With storage capacity already full, some individual or group may have taken a short position in oil futures, then arranged delivery of extra oil to the hub at Cushing 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2020 Hibernated