‘Someone Get King Salman On The Phone!’: Oil Spikes To $75 For The First Time Since 2014

Quick! Somebody get King Salman on the phone! ... is what Donald Trump shrieked at someone on Tuesday morning. Over the weekend, Trump raised more than a few eyebrows by tweeting out what certainly looked like the details of a private conversation he had with Riyadh about how to handle the situation if the State Department's demands that U.S. allies cut imports of Iranian crude to zero by November ended up catalyzing another leg higher in crude. Specifically, Trump said he had convinced King

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One thought on “‘Someone Get King Salman On The Phone!’: Oil Spikes To $75 For The First Time Since 2014”

The Saudi’s may hate Iran, but they aren’t stupid enough to push it so far to cause a crisis in the straits of hormuz, any stable genius would know that.