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In reply to the discussion: Putin looking pretty puny at 9 dollars a barrel. Obama gets last laugh. [View all]nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)26. "They rely on oil. We rely on oil and iPads and movies and you name it."
Derivatives?
All of this will be much more funny if the crashing oil triggers crashing derivatives - that were just foisted on the American people by both parties.
The last laugh? This play has barely begun.
Here's another laugh riot: China and Russia and others trading in anything but dollars. Har de Har Har.
"We rely on ...iPads"...made by slave labor in China. Yeah that's enough to be proud of right there.
Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers
Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation.
Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken.
It found standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories...
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463
It takes the BBC to report on this because MSNBC is doing "Lockdown" repeats and CNN is - well who knows what those washed up has beens are doing. Who cares.
Remember- if YOU are an American YOU are now liable for "helping" if the derivatives go south. Laugh it up.
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Putin looking pretty puny at 9 dollars a barrel. Obama gets last laugh. [View all]
arely staircase
Dec 2014
OP
Yes, I remember.. some on here were siding with his "political opponents who claimed he had been
Cha
Dec 2014
#1
The sanctions has had an effect on Russia and Putin thought he could cover it up but the facts are
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#2
"If there were" are the important words and you slide past them with such finesse.
Igel
Jan 2015
#35
You actually think there was no communication by POTUS and/or Kerry with the Saudis . . .
brush
Jan 2015
#17
TYT/Buzzfeed: "Russia's Online Troll Army Is Huge, Hilarious & Already Everywhere "
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2015
#61
Bankrupting militarily powerful European states has only brought good things, through history
Scootaloo
Jan 2015
#15
notice how we have gone from 'sanction can't hurt great mother russia' to 'sanctions will cause ww3'
arely staircase
Jan 2015
#70
Last laugh? At the destruction of an economy and the suffering of its people?
JayhawkSD
Jan 2015
#16
"They rely on oil. We rely on oil and iPads and movies and you name it."
nationalize the fed
Jan 2015
#26
That is a great counterpoint, we don't rely on derivatives as much as Wall Street does.
Rex
Jan 2015
#57