Please find attached our mid-Trump-Xi note, that attempts to cover the arc of the China energy challenge in the Age of Hormuz, mid-summit. History in the making. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Paul Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, 5/14/26
Greetings from Guadalajara, We attended family wedding. Quite the fiesta. I’ll give you a hint: this is the capital of Jalisco, the home of Tequila. ~ The past week was absolutely bewildering in global oil markets; the market seems to buy a peace narrative which we greatly struggle to believe in. As considered from the crisis start, we cannot see that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will easily cede its sudden position of global super-power (especially …
Greetings, Refiners are running at max capacity, and oil prices are finding a Hormuz blockage hierarchy. Excess profits are accruing to oil producers, US refiners, and shipping companies. Front page of USA Today, Daily Mail, nothing on Hormuz. I scrolled all the way down on the NY Post – not one story on Hormuz today. While the oil analysts get frantic, the NASDAQ hit a record high, and the President’s most important advisor, Mr Market, …