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Oil above $140 a barrel was the last straw – coming on top of the housing busts and financial shocks – for the global economy, as it represented a massive supply shock for the US, Europe, Japan, China and other net importers of oil.

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This is a straw.

This is a kind of a blowing straw.

This is a little straw, and what you do is you just nip two corners here, and this becomes like a baby crocodile's mouth.

This is how he became known to the public, and this is what probably became the straw that broke the camel's back.

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