The world burns at exactly the rate analysts expected, so everyone just updates their models.
Oil chokepoint running at 30% capacity now qualifies as a successful quarter in the new normal.
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▸ Wikipedia — U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio says the U.S. has renewed a $100 million humanitarian aid offer to Cuba amid the island's crisis and urges cooperation from the Cuban government