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Demeter

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29. Recent analyses point out

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 08:42 AM

Dec 2014

that this oil war is going to take down a lot more than its targets...like the good ole USA, the Middle East and probably Venezuela...and most likely before Russia succumbs.

The USA economy may like cheap energy, but that cheap energy has got a mass of expensive debt linked to it, which is a ticking time bomb for the financial system. Hence the recent chicanery in Congress to bail out derivatives, again. The nation cannot afford it, but there it is.

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