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Yes, its a bizarre parlor game. The fed will only do what the market expects - anything else will cause a panic. Because of this the fed spends the six weeks between meetings doing public events to talk in such a way that the market prices in whatever the fed actually wants to do.
The petrodollar is not what it used to be. There was a time when getting preferential access to USTs could persuade Saudis to only sell oil for dollars via SWIFT. Today they have joined BRICS and mBridge and sell most of their oil to China.
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