• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    That last part isn’t unprecedented. The US’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (for instance) made a lot of money buying low and selling high, which is just a happy coincidence of trying to stabilize the supply/prices.

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      10 hours ago

      yeah that is what I was getting at because the thing I read mentioned not doing anything like it since world war 2 and seems like we have.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Ah right.

        Taking direct equity hasn’t been orthodoxy for sure, but like you said, that part is likely technically wrong.