Saturday Sunday Sankey

By Paul Sankey Published on October 1, 2022 at 7:58 PM

Your correspondent is flying tomorrow at 7am La Guardia to Houston for Steve Chazen’s Memorial at 2pm assuming flights co-operate, and so this week’s Sunday is here on a Saturday; a brief highlight reel, or should that be “bloopers” “fails”, and “cringe” in this tape. From the UK pound, to Japanese Yen, to Credit Suisse credit default swaps (CDS) this is a market at war with itself, quite literally. The incredible sabotage to the Nordstream […]

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Exciting Events, Tourmaline

By Paul Sankey Published on August 9, 2022 at 5:34 PM

Delighted to say that Dr James Henderson is on Happy Hour Strategy Session this week A PREMIUM EVENT. Henderson is an expert in Russia. He started at Amerada Hess, then joined Wood Mackenzie in Edinburgh, where to my eternal gratitude, he was directly responsible for hiring me to join Wood Mac. Great times, Wood Mac and Edinburgh, where my 3 kids were born. Jim moved on from Wood Mac to Russia, heading research at Renaissance […]

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The Texas Power Parasite: Bitcoin

By Paul Sankey Published on June 12, 2022 at 2:58 PM

We have postulated, for example in our note on Dr Copper (Sweet Chile & Mines, Jan 2022), that China’s total dominance of global primary commodity processing, would eventually force the US and Europe to re-domicile supply chains and manufacturing industry. Having massively and excessively out-sourced energy and commodity-intense industry to China over the past 15 years, the world, not least the US & EU governments, are now recognizing the need to re-domicile core production, back […]

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