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Dec 2024
21m 25s

What can Trump do about the price of oil...

Financial Times & Pushkin Industries
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Among his many promises, president-elect Donald Trump is promising to drive down the price of energy in the US. But how realistic a plan is that? What levers does he have to pull? Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter talk about how oil is priced and what moves that price. Also they go long parliamentary democracy and short brunch. 


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