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A buddy of mine and myself have debating whether a coup during Saudi Arabia during the Great Recession would've worsened it and I began thinking on how the oil market could worsen the Recession in general?
Would an earlier Arab Spring worsen it?
How about an Iraq still controlled by Saddam during that time?