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Shipping Container Price Surge Will Result in Increased Prices on Consumer Goods
Shipping Container Price Surge Will Result in Increased Prices on Consumer Goods The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) announced that we should expect consumer prices to rise 1.5% on average over the next year due to the global shipping crisis. Inflation, fuel increases, and labor shortages are among the many factors that […]
Saudis, Russians Consider Pausing Oil Production Increases In Retaliation To Biden SPR Release
Saudis, Russians Consider Pausing Oil Production Increases In Retaliation To Biden SPR Release When commenting on yesterday’s SPR release announcement by the Biden admin and several assorted hanger-on nations – which has backfired spectacularly sending the price of oil soaring now that the rumor can no longer be sold so the news has to be […]
Bright Green Lies
Bright Green Lies
Cop-26–Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
COP26 – Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
The Gross Misunderstanding of Central Banks
The Gross Misunderstanding of Central Banks
Degrowth–the promising climate change strategy no politician wants to handle
Degrowth – the promising climate change strategy no politician wants to handle?
Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains
Food Inflation Is the 2022 Crisis, Not Supply Chains The real trouble will start when this year’s energy crisis morphs into next year’s food inflation problem. We’ve all become armchair inflation experts. And why not? It’s almost impossible for anyone to keep getting it as systematically incorrect as professional economists have done this year. It’s time for the […]
Brits Google ‘Energy Bill Help’ As Energy Suppliers Go Bankrupt
Brits Google ‘Energy Bill Help’ As Energy Suppliers Go Bankrupt Extreme gas price volatility has led to a string of bankruptcies among British energy suppliers UK Household gas bills have risen by 28.1 percent and electricity bills 18.8 percent in the year to October Germany’s recent decision to halt approval of the Nord Stream 2 […]
Wheat soars to 9-year peak on supply concerns, strong demand
Wheat soars to 9-year peak on supply concerns, strong demand CHICAGO, Nov 22 (Reuters) – U.S. wheat futures rallied to their highest in nearly nine years on Monday as ill-timed rains in Australia and rising Russian wheat prices stoked concerns about tightening supplies among the world’s top exporters. Corn and soybeans followed wheat higher, with […]
Hogwash
Hogwash In the early 1980s, to Margaret Thatcher’s annoyance, union reps and managers at the steelworks in Port Talbot agreed a strategy to save the plant. As a result, Port Talbot was spared the post-industrial blight visited upon most of Britain’s ex-industrial towns. Now in private hands, and despite periodic crises, the steelworks employs some […]
Gazprom Will Halt Gas Flows To Moldova In 48 Hours Over Non-Payment
Gazprom Will Halt Gas Flows To Moldova In 48 Hours Over Non-Payment European natural gas prices could surge as new reports indicate Gazprom will halt all natural gas flows to Moldova, an Eastern European country, in 48 hours over non-payment for its gas consumption. The news follows Germany’s energy regulator, which suspended the approval process for the […]
OPEC+ Reportedly Threatening Response To Global Coordinated SPR Release
OPEC+ Reportedly Threatening Response To Global Coordinated SPR Release In an apparent ‘threat’ response to headlines suggesting the Biden administration is attempting to coordinate a global SPR release to push down oil prices (and following reports from Japanese media that the government is preparing to release crude from its strategic stockpiles), the Riyadh-based International Energy Forum said OPEC+ […]
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in day-to-day life. It’s easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion […]
