By Paul Sankey
Published on June 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
As I write this, we are rushing to get ahead of the 3:30 p.m. ET press conference planned for President Trump today regarding the seemingly endless “Deal Very Soon” situation with Iran. Let’s repeat our quote from the 2000s Iran nuclear EU “It’s like playing chess with a monkey. You get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king.” Watching the U.S.–Iran dynamic right now feels exactly like watching a Knicks game: we constantly …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Greetings from Brooklyn Heights, Well, the big story on Friday was the shocking arbitration decision against US start-up-to-giant US LNG exporter Venture Global, right? BP wins a major legal case! Wild. Well it was big news, until that is, we got a Truth Social post from Donald Trump that cratered the NASDAQ by eight handles and sent crypto-currencies to their largest one-day value loss in history of around -$19bn, sending social media into a frenzy. …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on August 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Client comment of the week: “I’ve received 20-25 notes from Neil Mehta (Goldman Sachs lead oil analyst) in the last 12 hours. It’s bananas”. TOTAL $TTE feedback Major Long Only: “Your math on TOTAL’s dividend yield is so bad, I want to cry”- But my point was correct! Huge cash yield, great company Major investor: You made great (positive) comments on Enterprise. Couldn’t agree more. Key here is estate management, you buy it for the …
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