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The Bulletin: March 20-26, 2025
The Bulletin: March 20-26, 2025 Threats to U.S. Security: Aging Infrastructure, Fragile Systems, and Information Warfare The Planet Can’t Afford AI – by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume The Market Will Crash – Here’s When Here is how the government will force you to enlist in the army Sahara flooding, Amazon tributaries drying, warming tipping over 1.5°C—2024 […]
Geopolitical Tensions Are Designed To Distract The Public From Economic Decline
Geopolitical Tensions Are Designed To Distract The Public From Economic Decline Tracking geopolitical and fiscal developments over the past several years is a bit like watching a slow motion train wreck; you know exactly what the consequences of the events will be, you try to warn people as much as possible, but, ultimately, you cannot […]
Alberta and oil prices: How Middle East geopolitics and religion affect our future
Alberta and oil prices: How Middle East geopolitics and religion affect our future Calgary’s economic fortunes enmeshed in decisions made on the other side of the globe Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi at a news conference following a meeting in Doha, Qatar February 16, 2016. (Naseem Zeitoon/Reuters) Calgary is unlike most other cities. It […]
Plunging Commodities Interfere With The New World Order
Plunging Commodities Interfere With The New World Order Anglo American, a British company, and one of the world’s biggest miners, and a ‘producer’ (actually just a miner, how did those two terms ever get mixed up?!) of platinum (world no. 1), diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and coal, said today it would scrap dividends AND […]
World War III Draws Closer As Russia Accuses Turkey Of Being ‘Secret Allies’ With ISIS
World War III Draws Closer As Russia Accuses Turkey Of Being ‘Secret Allies’ With ISIS Are Russia and Turkey on the verge of going to war? In remarks that were almost entirely ignored by the western media, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the Turkish government of being “secret allies” with ISIS on Friday. And […]
This Week In Energy: Geopolitical Triggers Could Spur More Price Volatility
This Week In Energy: Geopolitical Triggers Could Spur More Price Volatility Tensions heated up in the Persian Gulf this week after Iran fired upon and seized a cargo ship near the Straits of Hormuz. Considered to be the most strategic and vital chokepoint for global oil trade, the narrow stretch of water is regularly patrolled […]
Recovery, Geopolitics and Detergents
Recovery, Geopolitics and Detergents Increasingly over the past year or so, when people ask me what I do, and that happens a lot on a trip like the one I’m currently on in the world of down under, I find myself not just stating the usual ‘I write about finance and energy’, but adding: ‘it […]
Lord Rothschild Warns Investors: “Geopolitical Situation Most Dangerous Since WWII”
Lord Rothschild Warns Investors: “Geopolitical Situation Most Dangerous Since WWII” For Lord Rothschild, preserving wealth has “become increasingly difficult,” recently, as he warns, rather ominously, “we are faced with a geopolitical situation as dangerous as any we have faced since World War II.” Furthermore Lord Rothschild summarizes his thoughts briefly, eloquently, and ominously… as he touches on […]
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand? In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or bribing regimes in that region — almost always to […]
U.S. Navy Considers Setting Up Ship Base in Australia
U.S. Navy Considers Setting Up Ship Base in Australia (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is in talks with Australia about “basing” Navy vessels in its main South Pacific ally, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert said, a move that would risk inflaming tensions with China. “We’re doing a study together with the Australia Defence Force […]
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High If it’s not one geopolitical concern these days it’s invariably another. If today’s story isn’t weak-handed Greece escalating the rhetoric in its hopeless game of chicken with eurozone creditors, it’s ISIS ratcheting up the shock factor in a campaign to scare U.S. coalition partners away from an increasingly ineffectual […]
2015: Grounds for Optimism
2015: Grounds for Optimism This may seem like an odd line of reasoning to pursue given what everyone else seems to be saying. Some are thinking that 2015 will be a repeat of 2014 with a few incremental changes (always a safe bet, but makes for boring reading) while others are warning of the potential […]
New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship
New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship Just before the holidays, Barack Obama signed a new law punishing Venezuela’s leaders for human rights violations — for persecution and imprisonment of union leaders, journalists and protesters, and for a general disregard for the law. “The United States,” proclaimed the sanctions, “supports the people of Venezuela in their efforts to […]
Jeff Gundlach: “If Oil Drops To $40 The Geopolitical Consequences Could Be Terrifying”
Jeff Gundlach: “If Oil Drops To $40 The Geopolitical Consequences Could Be Terrifying” In a recent interview with FuW, DoubleLine’s Jeff Gundlach explained his concerns about the oil market not being “unequivocally good” for everyone… Question: The crash in the oil market is already causing jitters in the financial markets around the globe. What is […]
