By Paul Sankey
Published on March 7, 2021 at 12:19 PM
This past week saw the worst market for US crude since modern records begin in 1990. We saw the lowest US domestic crude oil demand in thirty years or more. Who would have known it from the oil price action and oil market mood? Right when the scale of the Texas crisis hit, in terms of lost power, I was writing to you and on Bloomberg TV saying that this is a full-scale national crisis, […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on January 24, 2021 at 12:33 PM
“Does anybody in Washington care about the deficit? I mean 25% of all dollars ever printed were printed in 2020, and the total stimulus at $5trn, so far, exceeds the GDP of Germany… and Biden plans more…” I asked Frank Kelly, head of government affairs at DB, as we sat in Great Falls, just outside Washington DC, in a gastropub. We had driven past the preposterous mansions that line the road of this former farming […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on July 26, 2020 at 8:52 AM
As you float behind your wraparound shades, tan-topping on your infinity pool with the Bose underwater speakers cramming Dr Dre’s The Chronic, Kamikaze in hand, I will hunched pale white indoors in Brooklyn watching the final day of the UK Premiership. See slide within. New season starts Sept 12th, what a mess this year has been. There is the resolution of the European Champion’s League to fit in, and we have postponed the Euro 2020 […]
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