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“Game Over?” – Russia To Be In Technical Default Within Hours
“Game Over?” – Russia To Be In Technical Default Within Hours More than two decades ago, on August 17, 1998, Russia defaulted on its debt and devalued the ruble, sparking a political crisis that culminated with Vladimir Putin replacing Boris Yeltsin and which also eventually resulted in the spectacular implosion of a then little known […]
Opinion: Energy disruptions are now inevitable and most likely imminent — here are all the ways that could happen
Opinion: Energy disruptions are now inevitable and most likely imminent — here are all the ways that could happen Pick your poison, but the end result is the same: Russian oil and natural gas will fall offline Will the lights go out? More has gone horribly, horribly wrong in European-Russian affairs in the last week than […]
“The Market Is Starting To Fail”: Buyers Balk At Russian Oil Purchases Despite Record Discounts, Sanction Carve Outs
“The Market Is Starting To Fail”: Buyers Balk At Russian Oil Purchases Despite Record Discounts, Sanction Carve Outs While in their unprecedented broadside of sanctions on Russia, the U.S. and Western allies went out of their way to spare Russian energy shipments and keep economies humming and voters warm, the oil market has gone on […]
Russian oil production update Nov 2021
Russian oil production update Nov 2021 Pic 1: Druzhba oil pipeline, refineries supplied https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/ce/7/4144/4136/Druzhba%20IEA.pngFig 2: Crude production peaked before Covid at around 10.6 mb/d That this production level would be some kind of limit was known for a long time April 2008 The IEA’s latest medium-term outlook, published in July, points to Russia as the […]
Zelensky Urges Biden To Impose No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine; Turkey Shuts Straits To All Warships
Zelensky Urges Biden To Impose No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine; Turkey Shuts Straits To All Warships Update(1845ET): Ukraine’s President Zelensky has urged the West to consider imposing a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft. Zelensky on Monday appealed directly to Joe Biden to consider a no-fly zone for “significant parts” of Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader issued the statement in an exclusive […]
US Bans Transactions With Russian Central Bank, Freezing Nearly Half Of Russia’s $630BN In Reserves
US Bans Transactions With Russian Central Bank, Freezing Nearly Half Of Russia’s $630BN In Reserves Following in the footsteps of Europe, on Monday the Biden administration banned U.S. people and companies from doing business with the Bank of Russia, the Russian National Wealth Fund and the Ministry of Finance. The moves by the U.S. Treasury’s […]
All Hell Breaks Loose As Global Markets Open: Stocks Crash, Oil & Gold Surge
All Hell Breaks Loose As Global Markets Open: Stocks Crash, Oil & Gold Surge Update (1800ET): As expected – all hell breaks loose in global markets as futures open… US equity futures are down 3% at the open – erasing all of Friday’s melt-up… The Euro is plunging… Bitcoin was already sliding into the open… Treasuries […]
Pozsar Warns Of Another “Lehman Weekend” As Russia Sanctions May Trigger Central Bank Liquidity Flood
Pozsar Warns Of Another “Lehman Weekend” As Russia Sanctions May Trigger Central Bank Liquidity Flood In a remarkable show of force and unity, western powers cast aside all their previous concerns about Russian energy supplies and uniliaterally announced the nuclear option of imposing sanctions on the Russian central bank coupled with targeted exclusions from SWIFT of key […]
Conflict Between Nuclear-Powered Nations: Chernobyl Is Now a War Zone
Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, May 1986. (Photo: Igor Kostin/Laski Diffusion/Getty Images) Conflict Between Nuclear-Powered Nations: Chernobyl Is Now a War Zone The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia poses several nuclear threats, including […]
Putin Ushers in the New Geopolitical Game Board
Putin Ushers in the New Geopolitical Game Board Up until February 23rd, 2022, the powerful countries of the world played a very rarified game. Too many people try to analyze geopolitics like it is a game of chess. Move, counter-move. Push a pawn? Threaten a knight, that type of thing. It’s easy to understand and […]
“Cash Delay” Deliveries Strike Polish ATMs As People Panic Hoard Amid Ukraine Crisis
“Cash Delay” Deliveries Strike Polish ATMs As People Panic Hoard Amid Ukraine Crisis Russian forces continue to invade Ukraine for the second day, causing mass panic in neighboring countries. Poland, which has a 326-mile border with Ukraine, is bracing for a wave of refugees. The spillover of chaos is also causing Polish people to panic hoard cash […]
Order Out Of Chaos: How The Ukraine Conflict Is Designed To Benefit Globalists
Order Out Of Chaos: How The Ukraine Conflict Is Designed To Benefit Globalists Within the next couple of months it is likely that there will be direct US military involvement in Ukraine, with Russia now openly supporting and recognizing separatist groups in the Donbass region on the eastern edge of the country and apparently moving […]
Beyond the clash of empires
Beyond the clash of empires A world of living places Empire’s law – The unbridled pursuit of power I’ve seen this movie before. A large and powerful nation attacks a small and weaker nation. Fiery explosions light up the night. Their thunder roars across the landscape while armored columns roll over the border. Shock and […]
Cargill Ship Hit In Missile Attack In Ukraine Waters
Cargill Ship Hit In Missile Attack In Ukraine Waters Star Tribune reports a vessel chartered by Cargill Inc., a Minnesota-based agribusiness giant, was hit in a missile attack after leaving a deep-sea port on the outskirts of Odessa on Thursday. “Right now, our priority is the safety of our people in the region. This is a […]
Has the World Gone Mad?
Has the World Gone Mad? Understanding the crisis in Ukraine from a peak resource perspective No, this war is not (just) about getting Ukraine’s resources. Other political ambitions aside, this one is more about the rest of Europe loosing its energy carriers, together with its political power — and stability. It is no wonder that […]
