Krystal Ball
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41,674 appearances
222 recordings
6 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
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But when we think about their ability to also affect global oil prices and have an impact in terms of the Iran War, this is obviously extremely, extremely significant, especially when come you combine together the uh potential certain damage and potential destruction of the East West pipeline, which has been one of the key ways that we've been able to still get some significant
Significant amount of barrels of oil out of the Middle East.
Um, it's a pretty dire situation and especially coming at a time when already oil markets were uh looking very shaky, prices going up and up.
We had Brent Crude hitting $107 a barrel yesterday.
Uh we have uh diesel over well over $200 a barrel at this point.
So uh you already had kind of run out of the
the limits of Trump's ability to manipulate the markets and Job owned China's re-entering the market in uh, you know, g not back to where they were in terms of the level of import, but increasing what they're bringing in.
This looks like a pretty dim scenario for the global economy and certainly for your gas prices.
Yeah.
But of course, with greater control over the region, the th the threat of um, you know, that ceasefire collapsing and them changing their minds about that approach uh looms large.
And I think with with all of this, you know, Trump's whole strategy with the Iran war at this point was to slowly strangle Iran and hope that that was gonna lead to a different result.
Over the long term.
But the long term has to survive the short term.
You have to get through the short term.
Yeah.
And so what we have all been saying is why would Iran just sit there and take it?
Conditions on the ground could change.
They're going to escalate.
They have escalated.
And now we have another variable that's entered into the mix that very much cuts against, you know, the U.S.'s plans here in terms of the
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