Heavy content this week: China: capital restrictions, and Musk’s tweet on Covid origination in Wuhan laboratory Russia: foreign minister Lavrov laughed at the US: selling Taiwan arms worth of $619 million, and one needs to keep an eye on for a potential flooding in California Big theme: an important card Russia and China have: fertilizers …
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We continue digging into the material challenges around the so-called green revolution, and saying the unsayable. Last week we discussed a climate advocacy research article and study, and we can only hold them to be incompetent in their estimates which are to be expected considering they have no experience in the mineral extraction industry, but …
“Whoever controls oil, controls much more than oil.” John McCain Is the US losing its ability to control oil? Good morning, I’m Austerity Jones, and I am back with C Thomas Printer. The 150 year history of refining oil at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery has come to an end as the refinery is being …
This week on Looking Backwards: New Zealand PM quitting, and the protests in Peru. This week on Looking Forwards: threats that could hinder China to become a superpower, the US hitting the debt ceiling, and Brazil-Argentina discussing creating a common currency. Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand | Jacinda Ardern | The …
These days on our planet: the US House finally having a speaker, the Japanese increasing their support for nuclear, declining European inflation, US December CPI Inflation awaited, and Silvergate being hit with $8bn in crypto withdrawals. Watch the show YouTube News of the week, handpicked for you Kevin McCarthy is elected House speaker after 15 …
These days on our planet: Biden accusing oil companies -again-, Brazil markets sinking, Australia house prices tumbling, Tesla missing market estimates of quarterly deliveries, California combating with natural disasters, low-income households of UK to receive new cost-of-living payments. Listen to our LBLF (Looking Backwards Looking Forwards) show right away because we want you to be the …
A perspective on what awaits us in the new year: Elon’s empire on the brink, oil price-supply&demand, geopolitics in China-Taiwan issue, other regional hostilities: Belarus-Ukraine, Kosovo-Serbia, and India-China, another potential hotspot: Ghana defaulting on its debt, and the big question mark: housing market. And finally, turbulences in the US: $545bn in interest in the $1.7tn …
This week we discuss $30bn Saudi & Chinese deal, US & Russia prisoner swap, UK approving a new coal mine, Italy, Japan, and the UK teaming up to build a fighter jet, and British government looking to ease financial rules. Strength in numbers: Saudi Arabia and China seal 35 deals worth $30bn during Xi Jinping’s …
The transition from the gold standard to the petrodollar. Thank you, US military. Good morning I’m Austerity Jones and I’m here with C Thomas Printer to discuss the transition of America from the gold standard to the petrodollar. C Thomas: Good morning Austerity. We have already looked at how most countries go off the gold …
We remember executive orders and government acts that demolished gold from being the backbone of the US currency. The question we now have is what if BRICS countries decide to turn back to gold, what happens? Good morning I’m Austerity Jones and I am here with C Thomas Printer who is ready to talk about …