Malthusian Traps vs AI; Oils vs the Market

By Paul Sankey Published on November 1, 2026 at 9:03 PM

Greetings, Two big things today, we approach the week with Mid-term Election trepidation, after a violent end to last week, and Apple earnings etc tomorrow. Plenty of oil earnings. By Friday we will be all-but done, with EOG reporting. A major Long Only client pointed out that BP earnings estimates are far too low, on a stock that already looks extremely cheap. We had a little mutter about the Sellside these days, by which there …

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Guess Who’s Back: Sunday Sankey

By Paul Sankey Published on October 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM

Truly loyal readers will remember that the “Sunday Sankey” started as a weekly presentation file. Along the way it became an email. The good news is, after my speaker slot at the “Masters of the Universe” group dinner last Wednesday, there has been some demand for a marketing visit from clients, and you are welcome to request one, please do. I miss the company! So I needed to refresh my slide deck, and this was …

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The Knicks, Vultures, and “The Art of the Deal”

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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