Rupert Murdoch on the Iraq War and oil prices, February 2003: “The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That’s bigger than any tax cut in the any country.”

Oil prices, today: About $100 a barrel.

[via This Modern World, via Paul Krugman]

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