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• Gazprom’s Latest Plan To Avoid U.S. Sanctions

  Published 25 December 2019 | viewed 18,836 times

  Trump's signing the 2020 NDAA into law on Friday, and with it, sanctions targeting European and Russian companies laying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, had…

• Muslim Cryptocurrency: Iran’s Latest Plan To Circumvent Sanctions

  Published 21 December 2019 | viewed 28,677 times

  Iran’s President has proposed to create a Muslim cryptocurrency as one of a number of means to confront the economic dominance of the United States. Speaking at…

• China’s Electric Vehicle Bubble Has Popped

  Published 18 December 2019 | viewed 22,595 times

  New electric vehicle (EV) sales in China plunged in November for the fifth consecutive month, extending a decline that we've been highlighting for the past…

• Nord Stream 2 Is “Past The Point Of No Return”

  Published 14 December 2019 | viewed 24,861 times

  Included in Wednesday's just passed mammoth 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — which increases the Pentagon budget by $22 billion (to a whopping $738 billion) — were long-threatened sanctions…

• Waning Diesel Demand: A Red Flag For The US Economy?

  Published 11 December 2019 | viewed 13,800 times

  The U.S. economy is decelerating into an election year and could print below-trend growth by 2H20. Manufacturing, employment, and inflation have all been in downturns…

• The Gas-For-Gold Scheme That Slipped Through U.S. Sanctions

  Published 07 December 2019 | viewed 24,200 times

  We first started noticing major 'odd' exports of gold from Turkey to Iran in May 2012.  Turkey’s trade balance fluctuated wildly as gold stocks flowed out…

• Diplomat Leaks Map Confirming Turkey’s Real Territorial Claims

  Published 04 December 2019 | viewed 25,677 times

  A Turkish diplomat has revealed a map which delineates waters in the Mediterranean claimed by Turkey, amid an ongoing months-long standoff with Cyprus and Greece over Turkish…

• Pirates Hijack Fully Loaded Supertanker Off Nigeria

  Published 04 December 2019 | viewed 31,182 times

  A gang of pirates have kidnapped 19 sailors after waylaying then boarding a supertanker loaded with oil, according to various media reports. Hong Kong-flagged crude supertanker…

• Saudi Arabia Threatens To Flood Oil Markets If OPEC Members Don’t Cut Output

  Published 04 December 2019 | viewed 99,018 times

  Three days after oil tumbled following a Bloomberg report that Saudi Arabia was angry at its (N)OPEC co-members for not complying with production quotas, and was no…

• Elon Musk Claims 250,000 Orders For Cybertruck

  Published 28 November 2019 | viewed 12,567 times

  With such an impressive unveiling that included audible laughter from the audience and two broken windows, it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk fanboys are falling…

• Investors Are Abandoning “Uninvestable” Oil Service Stocks

  Published 27 November 2019 | viewed 8,488 times

  There have been few sectors dripping with apathy of late quite like the oil services sector.  On Tuesday, The Philadelphia Oil Service Sector Index fell…

• Iran Could Have A Nuclear Bomb Within Months

  Published 27 November 2019 | viewed 12,515 times

  The Iranian government is shortening its nuclear breakout time -- the amount of time required to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear weapon. Tehran has accomplished…

• Saudi Officials Are Arresting High-Profile Citizens Ahead Of Aramco IPO

  Published 26 November 2019 | viewed 37,134 times

  Apparently feeling emboldened by the fact that Saudi Arabia suffered zero repercussions over the Oct.3, 2018 state-ordered murder of Jamal Khashoggi, other than Crown Prince…

• Washington’s Libya Pivot Could Be A Game-Changer

  Published 25 November 2019 | viewed 21,844 times

  Starting last April President Trump caught many in his own administration off guard when he unexpectedly thanked renegade General Khalifa Haftar for "securing Libya's oil resources" at…

• Why The Latest Shale Bust Is Different

  Published 25 November 2019 | viewed 95,332 times

  In 2019 through third quarter, 32 oil and gas drillers have filed for bankruptcy, according to Haynes and Boone. Since the end of September, a gaggle…

• China Adds Wave Of New Coal Fired Power Plants

  Published 21 November 2019 | viewed 28,241 times

  In recent months, eco-activist Greta Thunberg who has become synonymous with the global climate change movement has made consistent appeals at the developed world, demanding…

• World’s Most Optimistic Oil Trader Turns Bearish

  Published 21 November 2019 | viewed 41,149 times

  For virtually all of his career, legendary oil trader Andy Hall was a permabull when it comes to the price of oil. While that served…

• Fukushima Set To Become A $2.7 Billion Renewable Energy Hub

  Published 18 November 2019 | viewed 10,574 times

  Almost nine years after the century's worst nuclear crisis - which by some counts has eclipsed Chernobyl in total radioactive emissions - nearly a thousand…

• Climate Crusader Sues Pension Fund For Not Being Green Enough

  Published 15 November 2019 | viewed 13,018 times

  Bored with just plain old protests and interrupting political events to force their climate change virtue signaling onto the world, environmentalists are now using the legal system…

• Military Coup Leaves World’s Largest Lithium Reserves At Risk

  Published 13 November 2019 | viewed 11,417 times

  Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved…