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One Reader Tried To Get A Transcript Of What Obama Said To Yellen; This Is What The Fed Replied

One Reader Tried To Get A Transcript Of What Obama Said To Yellen; This Is What The Fed Replied

One month ago we showed something curious: literally, the very hour the market was hitting its February lows, Janet Yellen was on the phone with Bank of England governor (and former Goldman Sachs employee) Marc Carney, followed the very next day by a conversation with ECB president (and former Goldman Sachs employee) Mario Draghi.

Dohaha, Slippery Oil Prices Laugh at Nearly Everyone

Dohaha, Slippery Oil Prices Laugh at Nearly Everyone

by David Haggith from The Great Recession Blog

 

As predicted relentlessly here, the scuttled meeting in Doha to limit oil production broke up with no agreement at all. The meeting foundered like a tanker snagged in the dessert sands because of the singular obvious factor that should have sunken all hope weeks ago but did not: Saudi Arabia said, “No deal without Iran.”

 

Doha disaster predictable yet not the disaster that was predicted

 

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