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[KaRl]

"What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world," says John Catsimatidis, the billionaire grocer turned oil refiner who is attempting to reorganize Semgroup in bankruptcy court. The $500 billion is how much the world would have overpaid for crude had a successful scam pushed up oil prices by $50 a barrel for 100 days.[^] What? A financial company wouldn't give a damn to fuck the world economy just to win more money? The invisible hand would just appear and stop that!

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[Oakman]

Ka?l wrote:

The invisible hand would just appear and stop that!

It did. If you take a look at the last fifty-sixty years or so, you'll see that every time there's been a run-up in the price of oil, there's been a recession until either the price dropped or inflation caught up. Nobody ever referred to it as the "gentle invisible hand of the market."

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