Krystal Ball
speaker
43,233 appearances
230 recordings
6 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 4d ago
Krystal Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 229 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 37.
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In uh, you know, those prices are already pretty high.
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But the real problem comes in with number one, the refining capacity.
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And number two, the cost of shipping have absolutely skyrocketed.
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Well, this is a no-brainer why, because you have so many of these shipping lanes that are now either imperiled or completely shut down.
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So that's why you've seen in the diesel market in particular, diesel prices skyrocketing far and away.
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Above the crude oil price.
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And you can see that gap in the charts that they have in this piece between the Brent crude price and the diesel price.
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Just there's a large gap that continues to open and open and open because of those additional costs of refining and of transporting.
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We can put the next element up on the screen: E5.
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Asia US container rates have soared past 11.
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$11,000.
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This is according to freight waves near pandemic records.
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So we are getting very, very close to record breaking cost in order to ship and not we're not just talking about oil here, but we're talking about all kinds of goods with container rates surging past $11,000.
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And this is something that Sal had flagged for us last time we spoke with him as well.
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Like good luck.
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Yeah.
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And we're like,
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UN General
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This is what it is.
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You're starting to see these little breakages in the market, put E6 up on the screen.
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