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US dollar’s dominance in oil markets may face challenge as Saudis reportedly eye yuan-based sales deal with China
US dollar’s dominance in oil markets may face challenge as Saudis reportedly eye yuan-based sales deal with China Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Saudi Arabia is in talks to sell oil to China and be paid in yuan, according to the Wall Street Journal. For nearly 50 […]
The end of fiat hoving into view…
The end of fiat hoving into view… Tragic though the situation in Ukraine has become, the real war which started out as financial in character some time ago has now become both financial and about commodities. Putin made a huge mistake invading Ukraine but the West’s reaction by seeking to isolate Russia and its commodity […]
What War in Ukraine Means for Energy and Money
What War in Ukraine Means for Energy and Money
World War III Has Already Started, and It’s an Economic War
World War III Has Already Started, and It’s an Economic War Image © Chekov_UA. All rights reserved. In an article I published in April of 2018, World War III Will Be An Economic War, I outlined a number of factors that portend a large scale conflict between East and West and why this war would be mainly […]
Loss of Russian Oil Leaves a Void Not Easily Filled, Straining Market
Loss of Russian Oil Leaves a Void Not Easily Filled, Straining Market Global production will take time to ramp up, so the U.S. and other buyers will chase limited supplies, creating upheaval unseen in decades. A Rosneft refinery. Russia is the world’s No. 3 oil producer, after the United States and Saudi Arabia.Credit…Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg HOUSTON […]
America’s Emerging Energy Crisis
America’s Emerging Energy Crisis The warning signs are everywhere. We are stumbling toward an energy crisis that is likely to be far more severe and long-lasting than the upheavals of the 1970s. And no, this isn’t about Russia or Ukraine. This is about the perilous state of the U.S. electricity grid. If action isn’t taken soon to […]
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future As I write these words, the Russo-Ukrainian war has raged for a week. To a great many people, crises like these make the theme of my recent posts here—the potential of the human imagination—seem wholly irrelevant. That’s a common mistake, but it’s still a mistake. […]
The American Empire Self-Destructs, But Nobody Thought That It Would Happen This Fast
The American Empire Self-Destructs, But Nobody Thought That It Would Happen This Fast Photograph Source: Phil Dolby – CC BY 2.0 Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion. […]
Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard
Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The war is not going well for Kyiv, and it would be unreasonable to expect that to change. As a vastly superior military force overwhelms the US client state, reality is in the process of crashing down hard in the face of western […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Zoltan Pozsar Warns Russian Sanctions Threaten Dollar’s Reserve Status
Zoltan Pozsar Warns Russian Sanctions Threaten Dollar’s Reserve Status Over the weekend, the world gasped in shock when Western powers announced that the nuclear option would be used against Russia in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine – sanctions against the country’s central bank and targeted expulsions of key banks from SWIFT, a move which […]
