Nobel laureate Paul Krugman calls it 'treason': $580 million in suspicious oil futures traded minutes before Trump's Iran reversal
Insider Trading,Trump Administration,Iran,Predictions,Stock Market,Markets,Global Markets,Free Markets,US Congress
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Roughly $580 million worth of oil futures changed hands in a single minute early Monday morning, only about 15 minutes before President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. had been engaged in "productive conversations" with Iran to end the war.
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