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Owen Raskovich

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6765 total appearances

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Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

You don't need to rebuild it every second week.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

You don't need to fill up again on steel the next week, right?

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

So the oil markets are slightly different.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

And the way that they work...

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

is that there are certain groups around the world that control the supply of oil.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

So they deliberately want to keep prices high.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

And if you've done Economics 101, if there is lots of oil and lots of petrol at the bowser, the fuel service station will drop the price on the fuel to

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

entice you to buy more because, hey, they need to get rid of it.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

There's so much supply, but there's only limited demand from us consumers.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

So we have to get in.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

They want us to buy more and more and more, even though, I mean, what are we going to do with extra fuel?

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

But you get the idea.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

And what's happened is overseas in countries where they are dependent on the production of oil, where their employees are employed by these big refineries or big, just different types of organizations where they pump the oil out of the ground.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

What they're

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

What they're dependent upon is keeping those people in a job so that then they can contribute to the economy and keep the economy going through this tough time.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

But then what we've seen from other countries in the world who are supposed to be in agreement with these other parties, they're trying to say...

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

Well, hey, if you're going to keep producing oil, but we've agreed that we won't produce more oil, so we keep prices high, we're going to keep producing oil and we're going to drop prices.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

And so we've had one of the most powerful oil company producing nations in the world, which is Saudi Arabia, come out and say, we're going to drop the price of oil.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

so that anyone else that tries to compete with us on oil production and tries to flood the market will be, you know, they'll be booted out.

Australian Finance Podcast
Season 2: Coronavirus and prepping finances for... a recession?

We've got the lowest prices, so we will just flood the market until everyone else realizes that, hey, they shouldn't do that and they should just tow the party line, right?