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Originally Posted by Scandall
This lecture included an attempt to educate Dominicans on how unregulated speculators can drive up the cost of crude oil by fiddling with futures options on commodities they don’t plan on ever receiving.
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I respectfully disagree with this part, Scandall. I don't think the President was attempting to educate anyone. What I saw it as was a blatant attempt to externalise the problem to a global level thus exonerating the DR Government from responsibility for country specific issues. The standard 'someone else is to blame' game. And maybe some of the proletariat will fall for it. But when you look at the responses from groups as diverse as CONEP & the Alternative Social Forum..........there are a WHOLE lotta folks who can see through it.