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All Hell Breaks Loose On Russian Oil Embargo Fears: Futures, Stocks Plunge As Oil Soars To $139, Gold Hits $2,000
All Hell Breaks Loose On Russian Oil Embargo Fears: Futures, Stocks Plunge As Oil Soars To $139, Gold Hits $2,000 All hell is breaking loose in the Sunday evening session where S&P equity futures and Asian markets tumbled, while havens such as sovereign bonds and gold soared amid fears of an inflation shock in the world economy as oil soared […]
US Effectively Declares World War III Starting with Russia
US Effectively Declares World War III Starting with Russia World peace is created by economic opportunity. That is how the Roman Empire flourished for 1,000 years. They conquered much of North Africa during the Punic Wars. They conquered Greece and the East during the days of the Republic. Yes, they conquered all of Europe under […]
Further Down the Road
Further Down the Road How crises accelerate the process of decline Will it fall this time…? Image source: Unsplash I’ve always encouraged my readers to take a broader look on the shape of things to come — and to look beyond well curated political narratives. What rarely fits into these stories, is the vital role energy […]
Ukraine conflict may portend end to current world trading system
Ukraine conflict may portend end to current world trading system At the beginning of nearly every war including the current one in Ukraine, there are those who loudly declare that it will be over shortly and then business-as-usual can resume. They are rarely right. While no one can say for certain what the trajectory of the Russian-Ukrainian […]
When normality is exposed as a Ponzi
When normality is exposed as a Ponzi Putin’s hubris, yes-men for generals, lack of fighting conviction among the men, poor logistics and strong Ukrainian leadership and determination have combined to turn the Russian invasion of Ukraine into a military quagmire. Meanwhile, the West has upped the stakes in a financial war. The underlying assumption is […]
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately (Update 1:25pm ET) – Those who have it, are no longer giving it away, and those that don’t will soon find themselves in the middle of an epic food crisis. Just hours after we reported that Russia effectively banned exports of fertilizers, moments ago Hungary – […]
FRA-OIS Explodes: Here Is The Only Chart Powell Is Closely Watching, And Why It Is Soaring
FRA-OIS Explodes: Here Is The Only Chart Powell Is Closely Watching, And Why It Is Soaring Some were quick to mock repo guru and former NY Fed staffer Zoltan Pozsar when he warned that the unexpected western blockade of Russia had the feel of a Lehman weekend, because virtually nobody had any idea what the forced exclusion […]
Pioneer CEO Sheffield Warns U.S. Shale Is Unable to Grow Much More
Pioneer CEO Sheffield Warns U.S. Shale Is Unable to Grow Much More (Bloomberg) — U.S. shale lacks the capacity to come to the rescue of consumers battling sky-high energy prices with much more crude production, says the boss of the Permian Basin’s biggest oil explorer. Only OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab […]
The world could be on the brink of an energy crisis rivaling the 1970s, says IHS Markit’s Yergin
The world could be on the brink of an energy crisis rivaling the 1970s, says IHS Markit’s Yergin Russia’s Ukraine invasion could have set in motion an energy market disruption on the scale of major oil crises in the 1970s, according to Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit. Sanctions by the U.S. and allies […]
Russia bans ammonium nitrate exports until April to support domestic farmers
Russia bans ammonium nitrate exports until April to support domestic farmers Russia has banned the export of ammonium nitrate (AN) from Feb. 2 to April 1, in a widely-expected move by the government as it seeks to guarantee affordable supplies for domestic farmers following the spike in global fertilizer prices. Ammonia gas, one of the […]
Every US Enemy Is Hitler: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Every US Enemy Is Hitler: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the US could possibly have had […]
Russia-Ukraine War Propaganda Exposed
Russia-Ukraine War Propaganda Exposed Kim Iversen from “The Hill” breaks down what’s true and what’s false about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using images of past wars to depict the current conflict is blatant propaganda. Iversen noted that she mistakenly promoted a picture of Zelensky in full military gear that was taken in April 2021, and […]
Russia Describes “Hot War” With West To Settle “Post-Soviet Space” Once & For All; Zelensky Urges Direct Putin Meeting
Russia Describes “Hot War” With West To Settle “Post-Soviet Space” Once & For All; Zelensky Urges Direct Putin Meeting Update(1138amET): The second round of Ukraine-Russia talks are underway, with a “ceasefire” possibility on the table – however this is unlikely given what both sides communicated to Macron prior to the meeting as to their demands. On […]
Opening Salvos Thrown – What Are Putin’s Next Steps in Ukraine?
Opening Salvos Thrown – What Are Putin’s Next Steps in Ukraine? Last week I wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin rewrote the rules for the geopolitical game board. A week into his campaign to officially “demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine” it’s clear to me that Putin’s ambitions lie far beyond this stated goal. He will, however, stick […]
