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The Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures)
The Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures) Give me that!! It belongs to the Chinese now! h/t @FedPorn As we previously detailed, two topics we’ve deemed critically important to a thorough understanding of both global finance and the shifting geopolitical landscape are the death of the petrodollar and the idea of yuan hegemony. In November […]
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other “terrorists.” Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn’t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia’s dissident Shiite minority […]
Oil Plunges To $28 Cycle Lows As Iran Supply Looms, Stocks Slide
Oil Plunges To $28 Cycle Lows As Iran Supply Looms, Stocks Slide February WTI Crude futures have plunged to new cycle lows at $28.60 (down 2.7%) as Iran supply looms over an already over-glutted global crude market. Brent is down even more (-3.7%). Dow futures are down 60 points at the open. *WTI OIL FALLS AS MUCH AS […]
Iran Unleashes Oil Flood, Will Quintuple Crude Revenue In 2016
Iran Unleashes Oil Flood, Will Quintuple Crude Revenue In 2016 On Saturday, Iran marked what President Hassan Rouhani called a “golden page” in the country’s history when the IAEA ruled that Tehran had stuck to its commitments under last year’s nuclear accord. Moments after the ruling was handed down, the US and the EU each […]
Obama’s Invasion Plan of Syria Was Drawn Up by Kim Roosevelt in 1957
Obama’s Invasion Plan of Syria Was Drawn Up by Kim Roosevelt in 1957 The same person, Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson, who planned and headed the CIA coup to overthrow Iran’s progressive secular democratic anti-communist President Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, and to replace him with the brutal dictator Shah Reza Pahlevi, so as to continue Western oil companies’ control over Iran’s […]
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression — uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what happened. One of the […]
Will Reckless Saudis Seek War with Iran?
Will Reckless Saudis Seek War with Iran? Exclusive: Under growing economic and political pressure, the new Saudi leadership is showing a dangerous impulse toward military interventions, raising prospects for a direct and destructive confrontation with its regional rival Iran, writes Daniel Lazare. Now that Saudi Arabia has severed diplomatic ties with Iran and reportedly bombed Iran’s embassy in […]
Saudi Aramco IPO More About Geopolitics Than Finance
Saudi Aramco IPO More About Geopolitics Than Finance In the first week of 2016, Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, in an interview with the Economist, revealed that the Saudi government is considering selling shares in government-owned Saudi Aramco and/or its downstream assets through an IPO. He indicated that a decision on the IPO […]
U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters
U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters News broke last night, hours before President Obama’s State of the Union address, that two U.S. Navy ships “in the Persian Gulf” were “seized” by Iran, and the 10 sailors on board were “arrested.” The Iranian government quickly said, and even the U.S. government […]
War Between Saudi Arabia And Iran Could Send Oil Prices To $250
War Between Saudi Arabia And Iran Could Send Oil Prices To $250 The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries. The back-and-forth escalation quickly turned the simmering tension into an overt struggle for power in the Middle East. First, the execution of a […]
Iran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen
Iran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen Tensions were already running high between Tehran and Washington in the wake of Iran’s move to test-fire a next generation surface-to-surface ballistic missile with the range to hit Israel. And then the IRGC conducted a live-fire rocket test within 1,500 yards of a US aircraft carrier in the […]
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts […]
Bob Janjuah Warns The Bubble Implosion Can’t Be “Fixed” This Time
Bob Janjuah Warns The Bubble Implosion Can’t Be “Fixed” This Time Having correctly foreseen in September that “China’s devaluations are not over yet” it appears Nomura’s infamous ‘bear’ Bob Janjuah has also nailed The Fed’s subsequent actions (hiking rates into a fundamentally weakening economy in a desperate bid to “convince markets that strong growth and inflation are on their […]
Saudi Devaluation Odds Highest In 20 Years, Kingdom Now More Likely To Default Than Portugal
Saudi Devaluation Odds Highest In 20 Years, Kingdom Now More Likely To Default Than Portugal On Monday, we brought you “Saudi Default, Devaluation Odds Spike As Mid-East Careens Into Chaos,” in which we outlined the jump in riyal forwards and widening of CDS spreads that Riyadh witnessed in the aftermath of the kingdom’s move to […]
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil The market was supposed to save the planet. That, at least, was the argument of many economists grappling with the problem of climate change. As fossil fuels became scarcer, they pointed out, the price of oil and natural gas would go up. And then other options, like solar and wind, […]
