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The Mikado
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« on: February 26, 2014, 08:36:34 PM »
1985-86, when the oil glut sent the price of oil through the floor.  The USSR had been using oil exports to paper over their declining industrial sector, once the price of oil hit $6 a barrel their economy lost the last prop that was holding it up.
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