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Saudi Arabia Suffers Crisis Flashback But Finds New Ways to Cope

Photographer: Charles Crowell/Bloomberg

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It’s a different Saudi Arabia that confronts another collapse in oil prices.

When the kingdom last stared down the crash in crude, it wielded reserves that peaked at over $735 billion in 2014. The stockpile was down by over a third just three years later, channeled almost entirely toward deficit spending.