The Great Oil War of 2020 Russia Enters Oil Price War to Teach MBS a Lesson on Limits of US Support for Saudi A cash-strapped MBS may find the US isn't nearly as helpful when he doesn't have billions in bribes ready Nikolas K. Gvosdev 12 Mar 20 2260 25
Europoodles Shocked, Unhappy With Trump’s Surprise Kick in the Teeth Once again Trump sets back the relations between the Empire and its European auxiliaries — great! James McAuley 12 Mar 20 844 9
Trump Admin Unenthusiastic About Another War With Iran, Iraq After 2 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Rocket Attack Well, well, well...it's the perfect pretext, so why not so belligerent this time? Marko Marjanović 12 Mar 20 1239 4
MIC Joys Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn Into Existential Threat The "masters" of financial engineering have maneuvered the company into a 50% share crash Wolf Richter 12 Mar 20 946 7
The Great Hysteria Pandemic Panicked Politicians Who Want to Be Seen to Be Acting Are the Real Danger of the Coronavirus Outbreak Get a grip! Frank Furedi 12 Mar 20 566 3
Bubblegeddon The Fed Hit the Panic Button and It’s Making Things Worse Instead of helping matters the panicked rate cut to "fight" corona is threatening to burst the bubble Daniel Lacalle 12 Mar 20 499 7
This Isn’t a “Saudi-Russian” Oil War. It’s a Saudi & Russian War on Shale MBS couldn't get Russia to join him in aggressive cuts, so he forced it to join him in aggressive pumping — but Russia is not his target Marko Marjanović 12 Mar 20 2519 8
China Closes All Temporary Hospitals in Wuhan as Active Covid-19 Cases Plunge 1297 recoveries to just 19 new cases Monday Alba Ciudad 12 Mar 20 811 2
Pentagon Claims It Provided “Limited Support” to Taliban Crushing of ISIS They're far better at it than either the US or the US-founded Kabul army Richard Sisk 12 Mar 20 313 6
Did Putin Get Tereshkova to Clear a Path for Him to Stand for Reelection in 2024? Or was he as blindsided as the rest of us? Paul Robinson 11 Mar 20 1258 46
MIC Joys US Air Force Won’t Use Its Brand New Boeing Tanker Planes Except in an Emergency. A Fix Expected by 2023 or 2024 USAF has already accepted 30 and continues to accept more Joseph Trevithick 11 Mar 20 1117 8
$30 Oil Is a Whopping $20 Below Cost of Production for US Shale The average fracking operation needs $50 oil to break even Mike “Mish” Shedlock 11 Mar 20 1232 8
Belarus’ Lukashenko Can’t Get Anyone to Sell Him Oil at Anywhere Close to Prices He Rejected From Russia Nobody is interested in granting him even the 17 percent subsidy that he started a dispute over with Moscow Rauf Mammadov 11 Mar 20 1482 12
Bubblegeddon They Can’t See the Bubble for the Pin — It’s Not the Virus (or the Oil), It’s the Debt The coronavirus/oil market is just the blasting cap detonating the credit bubble implosion Schiff Gold 10 Mar 20 2210 22
US Army Scraps Plan to Sink $1 Billion Into Israeli Iron Dome Air Defenses Over Performance Limitations They're built to counter home-made rockets and contraptions but can't take down cruise missiles as Israelis claim Military Watch 10 Mar 20 958 6
Opinion It’s Not Covid-19 That Kills but Overwhelmed Health Care Systems With countermeasures you spread the eruption over a longer timeframe so victims get better care and fewer die Bernhard 10 Mar 20 928 3
Bonesaw Saudis Saudi Arabia’s Can Ill Afford the Oil-Price War It Started Need $84 to balance its budget, it has only two-thirds of the reserves it had in 2014, and was already on track for a 15% GDP deficit Abeer Abu Omar 10 Mar 20 1635 12
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg Putting Russians out of Business of Ferrying Americans to ISS Proving a Difficult Task for Boeing The institutional culture of a once-great company has been corrupted by inefficiency typical of military contractors Christian Davenport 10 Mar 20 1781 9
Obama Announces He Is No Longer Responsible For the Economy Trump welcome to own the bursting bubble The Babylon Bee 10 Mar 20 689 2
Those Pesky Russians Russia Says It Can Weather $30 Oil for up to 10 Years Or $25 oil for 6 Tyler Durden 10 Mar 20 1234 24
100,000 Women, Children and Men Too Old to Fight Were Burned Alive in Six Hours of March 10, 1945 "You could smell...burning flesh in the airplane", "You could see flames...100 miles away" John Ismay 9 Mar 20 4198 58
Stay Classy MSM Coronavirus in China, Hurricane Katrina in the US — Who Handled It Better? Neither episode was as straightforward as you might think Peter Lee 9 Mar 20 1054 7
US-Taliban Deal Allows Trump to Brag About “Peace” Without Having to Achieve It A paper that lets Trump say he's withdrawing without having to actually order it John Chuckman 9 Mar 20 414 1
Debut of Anti-Interventionist Think Tank Is a Dud, Gives Bullhorn to Perfumed Prince Petraeus The Koch-Soros "Quincy Institute of Responsible Statecraft" proving to be as non-threatening as its name Gareth Porter 9 Mar 20 393 2
Russian Aggression The Putin Stimulus: $30 Oil Will Be Great for the Global Economy The world should be mailing thank-you letters to Moscow right about now Marko Marjanović 9 Mar 20 3857 30
Bonesaw Saudis MBS Ramps Up Purges, Arrests Ousted Crown Prince and King’s Only Surviving Full Brother for ‘Treason’ America's 52nd state Daniel Larison 9 Mar 20 1104 4
Those Pesky Russians Russia Breaks With OPEC to Go After US Shale, Brutal Price War for Market Share Unleashed "Russia has had enough of the shale guys living off OPEC plus" and "has been riled by recent US sanctions on Rosneft and Nord Stream 2" Anjli Raval 8 Mar 20 7878 28