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Warm-Up
- Bogus Oil Prices
- Look at what Gemini and JSD can do...
- Markets needed good news - Correlation high
- Fed on hold?
- JCD LIMERICK!

Markets
- Did we just correct?
- Inflation - Eco that matters
- Manipulation in Oil - Land?

John Dvorak Jr. - Guest 
- UPDATE ON JCD
- AH Spoke with JCD Saturday....

Oil Prices - Bogus?
- The price of oil in the middle east is at $140 for its land-locked price, but ocean traveling oil is at $100.
- Sort, of, opposite of what you'd expect?
- But, then there's been active conversation and warning about manipulating oil futures to manage the situation.
- Oil in Backwardation across the spectrum. (Current price of oil contract is $95 and December contract is $75)

Oil Prices may be BOGUS - But What About Gas?

Gas Prices

More Manipulation
- The Trump administration has discussed trading in the oil futures market as a strategy to help curb surging crude prices amid the war in Iran, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said.
- US would just sell future contracts and then deliver at those prices at the end of the contract date. (SPR/Venezuela?)
- Not sure how markets will take an intervention like that.
- Remember when short selling was banned on Financials back in the 2008
----Stock prices