LongeCity - Oil Prices Go Down Before Elections

If the guy in power has been following instructions. It looks like the U.S. might have made an extra effort to cause the release of Kenneth Bae from North Korea and former marine Andrew Tahmooressi from a Mexican prison before the election. I wonder why they couldn't do that before; we give a lot of money to Mexico.

Sometimes the opposite happens. They say that when Reagan was running for office, he made a secret deal with the Iranians to keep U.S. hostages until after the election to make Carter look bad.

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