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applegrove

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2. Commodity prices went up during covid because there were lockdowns everywhere. Less was mined
Thu Nov 25, 2021, 10:41 PM
Nov 2021

Last edited Thu Nov 25, 2021, 11:28 PM - Edit history (2)

or produced. If Covid is shut down itself with vaccines, commodity prices will fall. Not all commodities have an OPEC to keep prices high. When mines and other commodities are open for a year, the markets will adjust to normal. If this new South African/Botswana covid strain shuts the world down again, we are ****ed.

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