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Scott Bessent: “It costs him about 2, 2 billion dollars a day to run the…”

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Published | Video Starts at 06:51

So roughly his coffers are unchanged and that whether a couple billion more lot of money in the real world. But in terms of the Russian Federation It costs him about 2, 2 billion dollars a day to run the government. So the idea is as soon as the conflict is over to and the markets are well supplied to go back. And again it is a short term window for oil on the water. (06:51–06:58)

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