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Botany

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1. So the big oil companies made money hand over fist by jacking up their prices which fueled ....

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Wed Feb 1, 2023, 06:01 PM

Feb 2023

... inflation and so the Fed raised their interest rates to control the inflation which was caused by big oil,
Saudi Arabia, and Russia? And the raising of the interest rates will let the rich get even richer because
they have the money and know how to game plan their investments and portfolios to make money in a
market w/high interest rates. aka the rich will get richer.

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So the big oil companies made money hand over fist by jacking up their prices which fueled .... Botany Feb 2023 #1

+1 Meadowoak Feb 2023 #2

Worse, voters are starting to realize tax cuts for billionaires are a fucking scam Warpy Feb 2023 #3