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OPEC’s body blow to Biden presidency — M. K. Bhadrakumar

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Oil, geopolitics and the petrodollar."It's the energy, stupid." Economics run on energy.This was entirely predictable as a result of the policy to address climate change through ESG. This resulted in less investment in non-renewable energy resources, which will still be needed in relative abundance through a transition that will take a relatively long time under the best of circumstances. Instead the world is facing the worst of circumstances, war and preparation for war. Militaries are notorious for the amount of carbon fuel they require for training, let alone actual operations.As M. K. Bhadrakumar observes, this is really an economic war in which real resources are key rather than financial resources. An advantage of economic warfare is that it is non-violent. The problem with it is

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Oil, geopolitics and the petrodollar.

"It's the energy, stupid." Economics run on energy.


This was entirely predictable as a result of the policy to address climate change through ESG. This resulted in less investment in non-renewable energy resources, which will still be needed in relative abundance through a transition that will take a relatively long time under the best of circumstances. 

Instead the world is facing the worst of circumstances, war and preparation for war. Militaries are notorious for the amount of carbon fuel they require for training, let alone actual operations.

As M. K. Bhadrakumar observes, this is really an economic war in which real resources are key rather than financial resources. An advantage of economic warfare is that it is non-violent. The problem with it is that it is a path to kinetic warfare as competition for scarce resources intensifies.

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OPEC’s body blow to Biden presidency
MK. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador.

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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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