Premium Only: Transcript/Zoom Robin Mills, live from Dubai, Intelligence

By Paul Sankey Published on October 31, 2026 at 9:13 AM

Paul: How does life in Iran relate to the regime under this pressure? Robin: There were huge protests in January, put down very brutally, with thousands killed. Some of the higher numbers are nonsense, but clearly many thousands were killed and many others detained. That happened before the war. From the regime’s point of view it was almost the best thing that could have happened: they killed or imprisoned a lot of potential troublemakers just …

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Return of the Lakshmi & a Map of the Future

By Paul Sankey Published on October 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Delighted to say that Lakshmi Sreekumar returns to Happy Hour this week Thursday at 4pm. She is quite the character, I just had a great chat with her. She is retiring from Capital One but not oil analysis. You may have noticed she popped up about a month ago on X.com and rocketed to 10k followers. Register for what will be a fun chat on Thursday: https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-lakshmi-sreekumar-managing-director-commodity-derivatives-capital-one-securities-interest-form/ Source: Dallas Fed Every Sunday after I have …

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Modern History: Hormuz (and Happy Hour)

By Paul Sankey Published on October 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM

TODAY on Happy Hour, fantastic long term analyst Rob Connors, aka Crude Chronicles, we highly recommend his research product through Substack. Register here for the Zoom at 4pm today ET. https://sankeyresearch.com/conference/sankey-strategy-session-robert-connors-interest-form/ Source: The Crude Chronicles You can sign up for Rob (https://thecrudechronicles.substack.com/) after you hear him on the call, a former sellside analyst, he has a passion for literally going to the library and grinding through deep financial and particularly commodity history. As you will …

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