market psychology

When the war began in April, I think it peaked, Brent peaked at 128, way, way below the $200 that people were predicting.

In terms of market psychology and manipulation by the administration, and this may actually be one of their greater successes in managing this crisis, they seem to have persuaded people that it was, to use your words in one of your notes, it was going to be, quote, "over soon." And we're [laughs] now, we're now looking, right, at seven months next week.

Well, I think soon has been the most overused word in this war.

From the beginning, we had the message coming from the administration that this war would be over soon.