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joakleaf on Jan 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Long range forecast

An IPO of Aramco is indeed a peculiar move:

  http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21685529-biggest-oil-all-saudi-arabia-considering-ipo-aramco-probably

I wonder why. Anyone?

arethuza on Jan 9, 2016 [–]

A lot of possible reasons - a bug out fund, paying for other people to do their fighting for them if a war kicks off with Iran, propping up their troubled economy, paying off Wahhabis...

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