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Over Time, There's A Very Close Correlation Between What Happens To The Dollar And What Happens To The Price Of Oil. When The Dollar Gets Week, The Price Of Oil, Which, As You Know, And Other Commodities Are Denominated In Dollars, They Go Up. We Saw It In The '70s, When The Dollar Was Savagely Weakened.

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Over Time, There's A Very Close Correlation Between What Happens To The Dollar And What Happens To The Price Of Oil. When The Dollar Gets Week, The Price Of Oil, Which, As You Know, And Other Commodities Are Denominated In Dollars, They Go Up. We Saw It In The '70s, When The Dollar Was Savagely Weakened.

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